EU/Europe Head of Research Division
EU institutions and political system, european political parties and democratic legitimation of the EU, post-Brexit relations between the EU and the United Kingdom
ProjectsSince 2010 at SWP, since 2020 Head of EU/Europe Research Division, 2016–2020 Deputy Head
Since 2013 Organiser of the British-German Outlook Group, a yearly exchange between the SWP, Chatham House, the Federal Foreign Office and the FCO
2012–2015 Lecturer at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder and since 2016 Lecturer in the Postgraduate Master of European Studies, FU/TU Berlin
2012–2014 Research associate in the project EU security agencies, Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung scholarship
2011–2012 Researcher at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder
2008–2009 Research Associate at the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences within the research division Multinationality/European Armed Forces
What Is the Way Forward in the Debate about Expanding Qualified Majority Decisions?
doi:10.18449/2024C16
The use of qualified majority voting in the EU Council (2010-2023)
doi:10.18449/IV01v1.0
European Perspectives on potential consequences and the policy areas most affected
How Eurosceptic and Far-right Parties Are Positioning Themselves in Foreign and Security Policy
doi:10.18449/2024C08
More responsibility requires more democratic legitimacy
doi:10.18449/2023RP10
How the United Kingdom wants to position itself as a reliable partner in a competitive global order
doi:10.18449/2023C24
Mapping transitionary integration while moving towards EU membership
In this short, insightful podcast, Kirsty Hughes discusses three big European questions with top EU expert Dr Nicolai von Ondarza, as 2023 draws to a close. Nicolai is director of the EU and Europe division at leading German think tank, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. In an end of year overview, they discuss the EU’s big eastward enlargement plans; the EU’s divisions over Gaza; and the risk of a right-wing backlash against the EU’s Green Deal.
Five Pathways to a More Democratic Europe