Five Questions on How Viktor Orbán Is Testing the EU’s Democratic Core - IGCC The Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been locked in a confrontation with the EU over the rule of law for a decade. “The Orbán problem” is one of many examples from around th...

Five Questions on How Viktor Orbán Is Testing the EU’s Democratic Core - IGCC share.google/EEFp9ZmDgOgE...
@lisa-h-anders.bsky.social and my interview with Stephan Haggard @ucigcc.bsky.social

With @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social al, @gscheiring.bsky.social, and Ivana Ranković @bezbednost.bsky.social

Curious about "Make Illiberalism Great Again - How the Orbán Government is Forging Transnational Alliances"? Join us for the event organized by @sudosteuropa.bsky.social and me on 27 February, 3 p.m. online 👉https://www.sogde.org/de/events/symposion-2026/

The advent of polity conditionality as a new form of internal governance in the European Union While the European Union (EU) has traditionally used conditionality vis-á-vis candidate and third countries, it has more recently begun to deploy it internally, towards its member states. Following...

Delighted that my paper "The advent of polity conditionality as a new form of internal governance in the European Union", co-authored with @lisa-h-anders.bsky.social and Neculai-Cristian Surubaru has been published with @jeppjournal.bsky.social! Free copies here:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KZDJF...

Endlich da! Mein Beitrag zum Thema Rechtsstaatlichkeit in der living edition des Handbuchs Europa von A bis Z @iep-berlin.de link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

An unserem Masterstudiengang European Studies @viadrina.eu wird zum 01.02.2026 eine SozialwissenschaftlerIn befristet für 2 Jahre mit 40 Stunden/Woche gesucht. Die Ausschreibung findet ihr hier👇
www.europa-uni.de/de/universit...
Bewerbungsfrist: 17. Dezember 2025

Call for Papers for the workshop “Turning the tide: Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts”, Mar. 26-27, 2026 @viadrina.eu.

Send your application to @sonjapriebus.bsky.social until Dec. 5, 2025. Successful applicants will be notified before Christmas🎄.

All details👉 www.europa-uni.de/ifes

The 2024 Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies of the Council of the EU in Comparison: From an Honest Broker to a Dogmatic Disruptor Click on the article title to read more.

🚨My new article in @jcms-eu.bsky.social, comparing the Belgian and Hungarian EU Council Presidencies of 2024 has just been published open access!

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Vor fast genau einem Jahr übernahm Ungarn die EU-Ratspräsidentschaft. In unser Analyse in den Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen @sudosteuropa.bsky.social ziehen Ellen Bos und ich Bilanz.

Polity-building in the European Union’s rule of law crisis since 2010 While the European Union’s rule of law (RoL) crisis has been largely absent from the bourgeoning EU crisis studies, the vast amount of literature examining the crisis and the EU’s responses to it c...

Happy to share that my latest article 'Polity-building in the European Union’s rule of law crisis since 2010' has been published in Journal of Contemporary European Studies. You can download one of the 50 free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNCWG...

Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa ​Das Lehrbuch liefert eine prägnante Darstellung der politischen Systeme Mittel- und Osteuropas in vergleichender Perspektive.

Tolle Neuigkeiten🎉! Das von Timm Beichelt und mir #viadrina @ifesviadrina.bsky.social herausgegebene Buch "Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Institutionen, Akteure und Prozesse" ist endlich da!
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Of course not! I'll send you an email!

Welche post-transformatorischen Entwicklungspfade schlugen die Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas nach den 1989-1992 erfolgten Systemwechseln ein? Dieser Frage gehe ich in meinem @ifesviadrina.bsky.social Working Paper nach.
👉 opus4.kobv.de/opus4-euv/fr...

Is #Slovakia's Robert Fico emulating #Hungary's Orbán and becoming an #autocracy? In my latest article "Robert Fico and his Politics of Revenge" @sudosteuropa.bsky.social I analyze the Fico government's first year in office. Drop me a line if you'd like to have a copy!