Interviews & Op-eds

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Cornel Ban Discusses China-EU Relations on Partizan

// July 31, 2026

Europe completely misunderstood China, Cornel Ban told popular Hungarian YouTube channel Partizan in an interview on EU-China trade and industrial...

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Laszlo Bruszt Analyzes Orban’s Defeat in Project Syndicate Op-ed

// April 23, 2026

Orban has shown that even highly captured systems can become politically exposed. The very mechanisms that sustained illiberal rule could,...

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Laszlo Bruszt Discusses the Hungarian Elections on Ukraine’s Public Television Suspilne News

// April 12, 2026

Laszlo Bruszt, CEU Professor Emeritus and Program Director at the DI, and Carsten Schneider, CEU’s President and Rector, spoke to...

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Laszlo Bruszt in Euromaidan Press on What Magyar’s Victory May Mean for Ukraine

// April 12, 2026

Laszlo Bruszt, Global Forum Program Director and CEU Professor Emeritus, spoke with Ukrainian news portal Euromaidan Press about what a...

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Foreign Policy Publishes Op-ed Co-Authored by Ivan Nagornyak on EU-Ukraine Relations

// March 18, 2026

The challenge now is not whether Ukraine belongs in Europe but whether the EU can design a path that matches...

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Adam Holesch, Piotr Zagórski and Aron Buzogány on support for Ukraine in the EU on LSE’s blog

// March 18, 2026

In a new piece on LSE’s blog, Adam Holesch, Piotr Zagórski and Aron Buzogány find that “war fatigue” regarding Ukraine...

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Laszlo Bruszt on Project Syndicate: The EU Cannot Afford to Bluff on Ukrainian Membership

// February 19, 2026

“If Europe wants to make credible commitments to Ukraine, it must lower the political costs of saying yes,” Laszlo Bruszt, CEU...

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Tymofiy Mylovanov in the Financial Times

// January 16, 2026

In an op-ed in the Financial Times titled “Ukraine’s military holds lessons for its postwar future”, Tymofiy Milovanov discusses how...

Volodymyr Zelensky waving, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola clapping in the European Parliament in 2022

Veronica Anghel on the Loop Blog: Why enlargement is EU geopolitics 

// December 16, 2025

The Russia-Ukraine war forced the EU to speak the language of power, but it didn’t turn the EU into a...

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Laszlo Bruszt and Julia Langbein on the Loop blog: The negative consequences of rule transfer in EU enlargement

// November 27, 2025

In a new piece for the Loop blog, Laszlo Bruszt and Julia Langbein argue that EU market rules, when applied...

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Laszlo Bruszt interviewed by Ergosum

// February 26, 2025

In a recent interview with the European Research Group of Support for Ukrainian Membership (ERGOSUM), Professor László Bruszt, Director of...

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Webinar: “Leveraging Reconstruction Funds for Stable Institutional Change and Sustainable Growth

// January 6, 2025

The webinar, titled “Leveraging Reconstruction Funds for Stable Institutional Change and Sustainable Growth,” will be structured as a moderated discussion by Laszlo Bruszt followed...

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Laszlo Bruszt in EuObserver

// December 18, 2024

In a recent op-ed for EUobserver, Laszlo Bruszt, director of the Central European University Democracy Institute in Budapest, delves into...

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Laszlo Bruszt and Erik Jones on the new EU enlargement process in Foreign Affairs

// May 30, 2024

On 30 May 2024, Laszlo Bruszt, Director of the Central European University Democracy Institute and Erik Jones, Director of the...

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Veronica Anghel, Erik Jones on the Loop: Is EU enlargement to Ukraine and Moldova credible?

// August 16, 2022

The credibility of EU membership for Ukraine and Moldova depends on how flexible member states are with the criteria for...