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RE-ENGAGE
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This Horizon Europe project assists the EU in refining its foreign policy toolbox and promoting democracy in Western Balkans & Eastern Neighbourhood
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🎧 NEW #PODCAST: The EU’s enlargement reality check. Listen to Episode 2 of The Neighbourhood: tinyurl.com/3nauwjs7

👉 Inside the episode:
🔹 How the enlargement process really functions
🔹 What this year’s package signals for #Ukraine, #Moldova, and the #WesternBalkans
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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European leaders will gather in Brussels tomorrow for the first EU Enlargement Forum👉 Read the latest commentary: bit.ly/3JYyXFo

#EUEnlargement #Enlargement #democracy #FutureOfEurope #WesternBalkans #EasternPartnership #Serbia #NoviSad #Tbilisi #Georgia #Kyiv
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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📩 Join Democracy on the brink by emailing Sophie at Sophie.gueudet@scuolasuperioresantanna.it

The event explores:
🔹 Georgia’s authoritarian drift and civic resistance
🔹 Ukraine’s democracy under the test of war
🔹 Academic activism in times of democratic crisis
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Solidarity is back in Serbia.

🔎 #RE-ENGAGE studies solidarity networks in hybrid regimes. Read the latest on After Novi Sad: https://tinyurl.com/5n7bshv5

#Serbia #SerbiaProtests #Belgrade #NoviSad #EU #Russia #vucic #aleksandarvučić #europenews #Democracy #Geopolitics #Enlargement #politics #news
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🇬🇪🇷🇸 Georgia and Serbia's EU candidacy looks very different on the ground.

🔎 RE-ENGAGE studies solidarity networks in hybrid regimes. New papers on #Serbia and #Georgia this fall: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#Novisad #Belgrade #tbilisi #vucic #aleksandarvučić #georgiandream
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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How long can #Georgia hold on to its #democracy?

Hybrid regimes invite external influence but leave space for civic resistance. New fieldwork and papers on Georgia this fall: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#Tbilisi #GeorgiaProtests #GeorgianDream #Russia #EU #Geopolitics
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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On November 1st 2024, 16 people died after the canopy of a railway station collapsed in Novi Sad, Serbia. Read now: tinyurl.com/5n7bshv5

#Serbia #SerbiaProtests #Belgrade #NoviSad #EU #Russia #Democracy #Geopolitics #HorizonEurope
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Serbia wants a new political system.

🔎 New fieldwork and papers on Serbia this fall. Follow for updates: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#Serbia #SerbiaProtests #Belgrade #NoviSad #EU #Russia #Democracy #Geopolitics #HorizonEurope
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Yesterday marked one year of demonstrations in Georgia following the contested October 2024 #elections.

🔎 RE-ENGAGE examines how civic networks born in hybrid regimes can sustain long movements. New #Georgia papers this fall: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#GeorgiaProtests #Democracy
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What does 1 year of #protest mean to #Georgia?

🔎 #RE-ENGAGE looks at how civic operating systems born in hybrid regimes can sustain long movements. New fieldwork and papers this fall: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#GeorgiaProtests #GeorgianDream #Tbilisi #Democracy #Geopolitics
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Serbia’s “faceless” movement has one clear demand: rule of law.

🔎 New fieldwork and papers on Serbia to land this fall. Follow for updates: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#Serbia #SerbiaProtests #Belgrade #NoviSad #EU #Russia #CivicActivism #Democracy #Geopolitics #students
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Georgia’s ‘faceless’ movement is still driving change.

RE-ENGAGE maps how these new civic networks are reshaping political life, and what it would take to convert street energy into institutional change: tinyurl.com/2bxf3u3f

#Georgia #GeorgiaProtests #GeorgianDream #Democracy #EuropeanUnion #EU
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Europe can’t afford another grey zone.

@lykkefriis.bsky.social on how #Ukraine and #Moldova are between two worlds — too European to turn back, but still waiting at the EU’s door.

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October 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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From all-or-nothing to step-by-step: gradual integration could change the game.

@lykkefriis.bsky.social from Think Tank Europa tells The Neighbourhood that it’s time for a new approach.

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October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#Denmark helped open Europe’s doors in 2002. Can it do it again in 2025?

@lykkefriis from @thinkeuropa on why the #EU must prove there’s still a credible path to #EUmembership

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October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🎧 #PODCAST LAUNCH: The Neighbourhood

Listen to Episode 1 with @lykkefriis.bsky.social on #EUenlargement → tinyurl.com/4bvd7t97

The series will explore how countries hoping to join the #EU are navigating #democracy, reform, and outside pressure.
October 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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🥂 After #Brussels toasts with champagne, the #EU needs to take a look at itself in the mirror. 👉 Follow us for more explainers on #Moldova and other countries shaping the EU's future.

#MoldovaElections #AlegeriMoldova #MoldovanElections #Moldova2025 #VoteMoldova #Russia #democracy #Chisinau #Balti
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#Russia poured millions into Moldova’s election. Did it work? 👉 Follow us for more election insights all week.

#MoldovaElections #AlegeriMoldova #MoldovanElections #Moldova2025 #VoteMoldova #Moldova
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Did Moldova just give EU enlargement a lifeline? Follow us for more election insights all week.

#MoldovaElections #AlegeriMoldova #MoldovanElections #Moldova2025 #VoteMoldova #Moldova
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🇲🇩 #Moldova votes this weekend. What we’re watching for:

How Moldovans weigh EU aspirations against domestic dissatisfaction.👇

#MoldovaElections #AlegeriMoldova #MoldovanElections #Moldova2025 #VoteMoldova
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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On #InternationalDayofDemocracy, the question isn’t WHERE #democracy is under pressure (think #Ukraine, #Georgia, #Serbia)... but HOW these countries can re-engage with democratic paths forward.

💬 What gives you confidence that democracy can adapt + survive in tough times?
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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For many Ukrainians, this determination is seen not as bravery but as civic duty.

The insights gathered on trust, democracy, and Europe’s role will inform urgent debates on resilience.

🔎 Full findings coming this fall: tinyurl.com/y5bsxeyn
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🇺🇦 Fieldwork under air raid alerts in Kyiv.

RE-ENGAGE surveys and interviews took place not only in classrooms but in shelters.

“To keep studying and working feels like a small gesture of defiance and resistance.”
— Sophie Gueudet, RE-ENGAGE researcher
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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In the heart of Europe’s security crisis, our researchers are completing the final leg of six-country fieldwork in Kyiv.

As war reshapes democracy and security, hearing how people view trust, the EU, and external powers has never been more urgent: tinyurl.com/bdhsstp3
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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♟️ Black knights are tilting the political playing field, but the EU can still make the right moves.

Our researchers previewed their early findings on black knight actors and what they mean for the EU at the EISA Conference in Bologna, with full papers and fresh data to be published this fall.
September 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM