Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones co-lead the role of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in 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

• Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘We Need to Talk About EU Enlargement’. Encompass (online)
• Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2024). ‘The Lessons from the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement.’ Politics and Governance 12:8358 (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. With Veronica Anghel.
• 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.
• Jones, Erik (2024). ‘Enlargement and Institutional Reform: How to Make a Credible Security Commitment.’ Fit for 35 Forum (Stockholm: SIEPS, 27 February).

2023

• Anghel, Veronica, and Jelen 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 (2023). ‘Will Ukraine Rid Europe of Its Colonial Mindset?’ Vox Europe (3 August).
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.

2022

• Anghel, Veronica, and Dietlinde Stolle (2022). ‘In Praise of Reality Not Realism: An Answer to Mearsheimer.’ EUIdeas (Fiesole: European University Institute, 28 June).
• Allin, Dana H., and Erik Jones (2022). ‘Sleep Walking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine, and the European Dream.’ Survival 64:3, pp. 213-222.
• 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.
• Anghel, Veronica, and Erik Jones (2022). ‘Is Enlargement to Ukraine and Moldova Credible?’ The Loop (21 July).
• Pre-February 2022
• Anghel, Veronica (2000). ‘Together or Apart? The European Union’s East-West Divide.’ Survival 62:3, pp. 179-202.

Biographical Details

Veronica Anghel is an assistant professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, and lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 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.