Guest Lectures

Expert’s opinions/Media 

• Tudzarovska, E. (2024). EUradio, France| “Clashes of sovereignty in contemporary EU”

• EU enlargement-back to the future. Op-ed: Social Europe: EU enlargement: prospects and challenges. Op-ed: Social Europe. Cited in  Financial Times “Growing pains of EU enlargement”

• A new age of party democracy. Op-ed: Social Europe (on the French elections)

• The new way of doing politics in times of elections. Op-ed: Social Europe

• Post-Crisis Democracy in Europe. UACES, Ideas on Europe Blog: op-ed: National parliaments’ role in the fight against corruption

• A new version of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ for the western Balkans, op-ed,  Social Europe

• Why France should take a lead in re-designing comprehensive EU anti-corruption strategy, op-ed,  (BiEPAG), the European Fund for the Balkans and the Centre for Southeast European Studies of the University of Graz

• Time to break old patterns? The EU’s credibility at stake in the enlargement process, op-ed

• Anti-government protests in Montenegro, Serbia and Albania prompt talk of ‘Balkan Spring’ (expert view), National Endowment for Democracy, Democracy Digest

• The Chinese ‘silk road’ in the void between EU strategy, CEE interests and the citizens, op-ed

• Macedonia’s EU accession: Why the quality of governance is the best (if not the only) option., op-ed. The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group

• Chief-in Editor opinion pieces in “Political Thought” KAS Publication on: Elections; Political Parties & Democratization; Climate Change; Civic Education etc. (2007-2013)

Guest Lectures

• Speaker at the UACES Doctoral Training Conference, Prague

• Guest lecture „Re-thinking Europe’s East-West Divide“ – Institute of  Law and Society, Czech Academy of Sciences

• Trainer on „How EU politics works“, Robert Schuman Institute and Martens Centre, Vienna

• CES Conference, Lyon, France: “Party politics, intermediation and  technopopulism“| Chair of panel(s) - Re-thinking Europe’s East-West Divide“

• Robert Schuman Centre,  Joint Sessions of Workshops: European Union’s Eastern enlargement(s): Lessons, challenges, prospects

• Oxford University: "Tensions between economic governance and crisis of democratic representation“| Launching of the UACES Research Network „Re-thinking Europe’s East-West Divide“

•  Cambridge University: CRASSH „The role of the national parliaments in on the digital sovereignty in the EU“ (working paper)

•  UACES 2023 Conference,| Queen’s University Belfast‚ The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern Southern Periphery: between democratic representation and technocratic solutions for economic governance‘ (paper presentation)

• CES Conference „The Environment of Democracy“, Lisbon. The Conflicts of Sovereignty and the Collective Goods Problems’ (paper presentation)

•  EU Economic governance and crises of representative democracies? Guest lecture, at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

•  The future prospects of the EU enlargement. Guest lecture delivered to the Montenegrin Association of Political Science Students (MAPSS),  Podgorica, Montenegro

•  The contemporary challenges to representative democracies. Guest lecture at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

• CES 27th, 2021 International Conference of Europeanists - ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and                      Dystopias', 21-25 June, 2021 -" The conflicts between legitimization and democratization in the CEE countries', 

• Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Cambridge, ‘Conflicts of parliamentary and popular sovereignty on nation-state level: old or new conundrum?’, paper presented at the workshop: “Conflicts of sovereignty in the European Union in Crisis”  (SovEU)

• Council for European Studies, 26th International Conference of  Europeanists, Madrid, Why do we need effective                   parliament(s) in curbing corruption?! or Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?   

•  NISPA, Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe Conference, Prague         Why do we need effective parlaments in curbing corruption? 

• Čtvrtečních sociologických seminářů. Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prague, EU Legitimacy and Corruption:                           Possible Linkages?! 

• NISPAcee Annual Conference. 24 - 26 May, Iasi, Romania, Knowledge-based economy, Public                                        dministration and Legitimacy: Possible Linkages.

• LSEE 3rd Network Conference on Social Cohesion in SEE and 6th Annual Research Conference of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia: The effects of corruption risks in the business sector on the progress of EU2020 strategy.