Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones co-lead the ‘EU Enlargement Hub‘, a consortium built between the CEU Democracy Institute, the European University Institute, and the Kyiv School of Economics. The project is a cooperative research and capacity-building initiative that aims to study and transfer the lessons learned from the European Union’s previous enlargement phases into policy recommendations for the current stage of accession negotiations with Ukraine and beyond. The ‘EU Enlargement Hub‘ also serves as a capacity-building initiative in Central and Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and the Western Balkan countries, and draws extensively on knowledge from the region.
Related Publications and Commentary
2024
Articles
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Geopolitics of Enlargement: From Club to Commons.’ Survival 66:4, pp. 101-114.
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War.’ Political Science Quarterly (online).
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Enlargement of International Organizations.’ West European Politics (online).
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘What Went Wrong in Hungary.’ Journal of Democracy 35:2, pp. 52–64.
Analysis
- Anghel, Veronica (2024). ‘Europe Turns East: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.’ Eurozine. (Online)
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Lessons from the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement.’ Politics and Governance 12:8358 (online).
- Bruszt, Laszlo, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘Ukraine’s Perilous Path Toward Membership: How to Expand Europe without Destabilizing It.’ Foreign Affairs (30 May).
Commentary
- Anghel, Veronica (2024). ‘How Wars Don’t End: A Response to Gerard Toal’s Analysis of Ceasefire Negotiations in Ukraine.’ Environment and Planning C: Policy and Space (online).
- Anghel Veronica (2024). ‘From Copenhagen to Kyiv: Rule of Law under Martial Law.’ How Can an Enlarging EU Best Protect Rule of Law and Democracy (Brussels: TEPSA, February) pp. 1-2.
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Key Question for the EU is Not Whether to Enlarge, but How Best to Do So.’ The Loop (7 May – online).
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘We Need to Talk About EU Enlargement’. Encompass Europe (21 April – online)
- Jones, Erik (2024). ‘Enlargement and Institutional Reform: How to Make a Credible Security Commitment.’ Fit for 35 Forum (Stockholm: SIEPS, 27 February).
- Anghel, Veronica (2024). ‘EU Enlargement: A Strategic Imperative for Survival.’ Fit for 35 Forum (Stockholm: SIEPS, 20 September).
Podcast or Video
- Džankić, Jelena, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘Enlarging and Deepening the Union: What’s at Stake for the EU and EU Citizens in the Next Parliamentary Term?’ Joint presentation to Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) committees of the European Parliament (Brussels: European Parliament, 16 April – Džankić presentation starts at 10:06:50, Jones presentation starts at 11:26:30).
- Jones, Erik (2024). ‘Early Elections in France: Is Macron’s Political Maneuver Foolish and Shortsighted?’ The Global Agora (Bratislava: Pravda, 17 June).
- Jones, Erik (2024). ‘Populism and Political Disorder.’ Vienna Coffee House Conversations Podcast (Vienna: IWM, 12 June).
- Jones, Erik (2024). ‘EU Enlargement, Democracy, and Security.’ EuropeChats (Brussels: TEPSA, 6 June).
2023
Articles
- Anghel, Veronica, and Jelena Džankić (2023). ‘Wartime EU: Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War on the Enlargement Process.’ Journal of European Integration 45:3, pp. 487-501.
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2023). ‘Is Europe Really Forged through Crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia-Ukraine War.’ Journal of European Public Policy 30:4, pp. 766-786.
Analysis
- Anghel, Veronica (2023). ‘The Power of Smaller Countries.’ Eurozine (24 July).
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2023). ‘Broken Promises Diplomacy: The Russia-Ukraine War and the End of Enlargement as We Know It.’ In Jelena Džankić, Simonida Kacarska, and Soeren Keil, eds. A Year Later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (Geo)Politics. San Domenico di Fiesole: European University Institute, pp. 6-14.
- Jones, Erik (2023). ‘The Choice for Sanctions.’ Survival 65:3, pp. 145-154.
Commentary
- Anghel, Veronica (2023). ‘Will Ukraine Rid Europe of Its Colonial Mindset?’ Vox Europe (3 August).
- Jones, Erik (2023). ‘Prigozhin, Putin, and the Fragile Claims of the Weberian State.’ Encompass Europe (28 June).
Podcast or Video
- Anghel, Veronica, and Ivan Vejvoda (2023). ‘The Past, Present, and Future of European Enlargement.’ Vienna Coffee House Conversations Podcast (Vienna: IWM, 24 May).
- Anghel, Veronica, et al. (2023). ‘The Future of EU Enlargement: Obstacles and Opportunities.’ Brussels Sprouts Podcast (Washington, D.C.: CNAS, 22 December).
2022
Articles
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2022). ‘Failing Forward in Eastern Enlargement: Problem Solving through Problem Making.’ Journal of European Public Policy 29:7, pp. 1092-1111.
Analysis
- Allin, Dana H., and Erik Jones (2022). ‘Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine, and the European Dream.’ Survival 64:3, pp. 213-222.
- Jones, Erik (2022). ‘The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank.’ Survival 64:4, pp. 111-119.
Commentary
- Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2022). ‘Is Enlargement to Ukraine and Moldova Credible?’ The Loop (21 July).
- Anghel, Veronica, and Dietlinde Stolle (2022). ‘In Praise of Reality Not Realism: An Answer to Mearsheimer.’ EUIdeas (Fiesole: European University Institute, 28 June).
- Jones, Erik (2022). ‘The War in Ukraine: Democratic Realism.’ Encompass Europe (5 August).
Pre-February 2022 (selected articles)
- Anghel, Veronica (2000). ‘Together or Apart? The European Union’s East-West Divide.’ Survival 62:3, pp. 179-202.
- Jones, Erik, and Anand Menon (2019). ‘Europe: Between Dream and Reality?’ International Affairs 95:1, pp. 161-180.
- Jones, Erik, and Andrew Whitworth (2014). ‘The Unintended Consequences of European Sanctions on Russia.’ Survival 56:5, pp. 21-30.
- Jones, Erik (2005). ‘The Politics of Europe 2004: Solidarity and Integration.’ Industrial Relations Journal 36:6, pp. 436-455.
- Jones, Erik, and Niels van der Bijl (2004). ‘Public Opinion and Enlargement: A Gravity Approach.’ European Union Politics 5:3, pp. 331-351.
- Cecchini, Paolo, Erik Jones, and Jochen Lorentzen (2001). ‘Europe and the Concept of Enlargement.’ Survival 43:1, pp. 155-165.
- Jones, Erik (2001). ‘The Politics of Europe 2000: Unity through Diversity.’ Industrial Relations Journal 32:5, pp. 362-379.
Biographical Details
Veronica Anghel is an assistant professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. Professor Anghel studies European integration and enlargement at the nexus between security-building and democratization. She also focuses on the transatlantic relationship before and since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She is a professor and course coordinator for the CEU Invisible University for Ukraine (IUfU), an initiative aimed to support the continuous education of many Ukrainian students whose studies have been affected by the war.
Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014). He is editor or co-editor of more than thirty books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015). Professor Jones is co-editor of Government & Opposition. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.