Can we please agree that after two decades of EU membership the 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇲🇹🇨🇾 are no longer “the new member states”? You are not a newlywed on your 20th wedding anniversary. 🇪🇺

#Macedonian presidential campaign slogans: It’s all in the name for two of the seven candidates: ‘Macedonia proud again! Gordana (Pride) for President’ and ‘Maximum for Macedonia’ (a wordplay that uses the candidate’s name – Maksim and ‘ум’ meaning mind, brain)

📅 Join us for CER/HSF_UK hybrid discussion on 'Why do the European Parliament elections matter?'

Speakers: Eli Gateva, Catherine Fieschi, Tom Nuttall, Nathalie Tocci and Klaus Welle.

Email [email protected] for further info

Inspiring news for the weekend! 📚👩‍🎨🤌
Want to study EU integration in the beautiful city of Florence?
Fantastic opportunity for CEE scholars at the European University Institute
The deadline for 2024 applications is April 30!
Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide UACES

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In a bumper year for elections, #Bulgaria is set to hold early #parliamentary elections and #EPelections2024 on the same day - 9 June. This will be the sixth time Bulgarians are heading to the polls to vote for a new parliament in 3 years

#Bulgaria and #Romania join the border-free #Schengen area after a 13-year delay, both countries are yet to fully enjoy the benefits of one of greatest achievements of #European integration

On Friday we discussed how we study Europe's Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide, Maria Popova reflected on why privileging one legacy over others to define CEE matters. After 25/20 years of #NATO membership and 20 years of #EU membership, why not define CEECs by their contribution to both projects?

Interested in Rethinking Europe’s Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide? We have an impressive lineup of scholars from comparative politics, #EU politics, political economy, political sociology, history, law and IR. Explore the full programme: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8e532… Emilija Tudzarovska

Friday 15 March St Antony's College, University of Oxford with Jonathan White M.Wilkinson LSE Štefan Auer Petr Agha on ‘Risks to Representative Democracies in the EU’ UACES Oxford Politics and IR Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy CRASSH, Cambridge Julia Rone, Eli Gateva Czech Academy of Sciences Charles University

Join us on Friday 15 March St Antony's College, University of Oxford for a great panel with Maria Popova, Denisa Kostovicova, Monika Sus and Ivan Krastev on 'Rethinking Europe’s Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide and European Integration in a New Geopolitical Era' UACES, Oxford Politics and IR, Emilija Tudzarovska, Julia Rone Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

Join us on Friday 15 March St Antony's College, University of Oxford for a great panel with Lenka Bustikova, D. Papadimitriou, Mihail Chiru and Timothy Garton Ash on 'Rethinking Europe’s Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide - 20 Years since the Big Bang Enlargement' UACES, Oxford Politics and IR, Emilija Tudzarovska, Julia Rone Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

Such a brilliant late afternoon/evening! Georgi Gospodinov on nostalgia, memories, the weaponisation of the past, the importance of storytelling and the power of personal stories in conversation with Marilena Anastasopoulou, Paul Betts and Catherine Briddick European Studies Centre St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Happy #WorldBookDay ! Come tomorrow to European Studies Centre to celebrate the wonders of books and literature with the International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/382ce…

14-15 March St Antony's College, University of Oxford 📍

Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide - Network Launch Conference Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide supported by UACES

Organised by Oxford Politics and IR
Eli Gateva Julia Rone & Tudzarovska
Cambridge University CRASSH, Cambridge Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8e532…

Interested in the impact of the war in Ukraine on #EU ? Join us on Monday 19 February at the Institute of European and Comparative Law Faculty of Law or online law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/… Othon Anastasakis European Studies Centre Oxford Politics and IR

👏Congratulations to Oxford Politics and IR's Seung Hoon Chae, Eli Gateva, and Sascha Riaz - the latest recipients of the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund!: ow.ly/t8oo50QvRHI

JUST NOW:

The European Parliament has approved a joint resolution calling on the European Council and the Member States to take action and to determine whether HU has committed serious and persistent breaches of EU values under Article 7(2) TEU.

This is a significant development. 1/3

Interested in rethinking #Europe ’s East-West Divide and its impact on European integration? Join us at UACES conference in Trento uaces.org/trento/themed-… Submission deadline: 21 January #UACES2024 Julia Rone CRASSH, Cambridge Emilija Tudzarovska Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide politico.eu/article/eu-ele…

Interested in redefining #Europe ’s East-West Divide and European integration in a new geopolitical era? Join us at UACES conference in Trento uaces.org/trento/themed-… Submission deadline: 21 January #UACES2024 Julia Rone CRASSH, Cambridge Emilija Tudzarovska Czech Academy of Sciences Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide