COVIDEU Project

📢 Welcome to the official Twitter account of the COVIDEU Project! Stay tuned to learn more about the project and our amazing team! 🇪🇺💙

Last week, I presented our latest paper, coauthored with @tonirodon, on the electoral effects of the NextGenerationEU funds on local governments in Spain, at the final workshop of the @COVIDEUProject. It was a great pleasure to work with such a fantastic group of researchers!

We are grateful to all participants for such a rich conversation, and to the whole COVIDEU team for an inspiring final workshop. Special thanks to the @VolkswagenSt for generously funding the COVIDEU Project and to the Humboldt Governance Lab for hosting the event.

One key takeaway from our discussion: growing support for far-right parties among younger cohorts is neither uniform nor inevitable. Context is important; social media, institutional trust, and economic precarity all play different roles.

On Friday, the COVIDEU Project held its last yearly workshop in Berlin. After a morning review of each of our team’s current research projects, we opened our doors for a roundtable on radical right support among young people.

📣 New Publication! Do border closures change political attitudes? We show that COVID-related border closures led to a short-term increase in hostility towards immigrants and decreased support for the EU, in affected border regions. But their negative effects faded quickly.

6/6 Read it here (OA): doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… By @LisaHerbig, @aslunn, @TheresaJKuhn, @irewrl, @tonirodon and @HeikeKluever

5/6 🗺️ Borders send strong political signals: about threat, sovereignty, and trust. Our study shows how these signals can shift public opinion, even in EU core countries like Germany.

1/6 📢 Just as Germany announces it will begin turning back asylum seekers at its borders on May 6, our new article in European Journal of Political Research is out 🧵👇🏻"Closed borders, closed minds?" doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… #BorderPolitics #EUPolitics #Schengen #COVID19 #EJPR

🚧 Closed borders, closed minds? 🧠🌍 New research, by @LisaHerbig, @aslunn, @TheresaJKuhn, @irewrl, @tonirodon & @HeikeKluever, explores how COVID-19 border closures shaped EU support and attitudes toward immigrants. #PolSci 📖 Read more: ow.ly/2FXq50VM2w3 #OA

As the week wraps up, I'm thrilled to share some exciting news! I've joined the @COVIDEUProject as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra's Department of Political and Social Sciences @PolitiquesUPF. I'm happy to be joining this amazing team! @tonirodon @irewrl

🎓 We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team. 📚✨ 🗓️ Apply by December 26. 📍 Located in Barcelona. 🔗 Details & application: apply.interfolio.com/160701.

New @COVIDEUProject article by @aslunn & @HeikeKluever examines how major geopolitical events influence EU support, focusing on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and its impact on European attitudes, ideological divides, and trends over time: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🇺🇦🇷🇺The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022... 🇪🇺...triggered a surge of EU support among Europeans, growing stronger as the conflict persisted. ➡️Read our latest article by @aslunn & @HeikeKluever cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

Excited to present joint work with @tonirodon and @sachary_ today at the inaugural session of the new PhD Research Seminars at @PolitiquesUPF . A huge thanks to @mcarrem_, @marcsanjaume and Luís Ortiz for organising this! The cool graphs here are made by the great @sachary_

What at pleasure to be at the @VolkswagenSt Challenges for Europe Symposium and present the results of our @COVIDEUProject to an interdisciplinary audience

Besides @TheresaJKuhn, @LisaHerbig @aslunn and Đorđe Milosav will represent the COVID EU Team in Hanover.

📢 @TheresaJKuhn will present key findings from the @COVIDEUProject this Thursday at 3:00 PM! We're looking forward to an insightful discussion on “The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Support for the European Union” with the fellow researchers. #EUpolitics #COVID19 #BorderPolicies

🚄 Heading to the @VolkswagenSt Symposium in Hanover this week! Excited to dive into the diverse and fascinating projects exploring "Potentials and Challenges for Europe" 🇪🇺 Looking forward to an inspiring exchange of ideas!