SCRIPTS speaker, Tanja A. Börzel, will be a speaker in the online seminar series of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN). Anastasia Mgaloblishvili from BGTS will join as discussant. 

The talk will revisit arguments about Enlargement Europeanisation. Tanja A. Börzel will discuss why neither the external incentive model (Schimmelfennig) nor differential empowerment (Vachudova) seem to work anymore in promoting, or at least protecting democratisation processes in accession countries. The discussion will focus on Georgia as a crucial case – the combination of high public support for EU membership and candidate status has not prevented the Georgian Dream government from undermining democratic institutions and repressing political opposition and civil society. 

For further Information, please take a look a at the ECPR webiste. 

Here you can register: Join the seminar.