Europechats - Has enlargement become the EU's security policy? | Discussion with Frank Schimmelfennig and Tyyne Karjalainen

This episode of EuropeChats is a discussion between Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor at ETH Zurich, Tyyne Karjalainen, Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and TEPSA Executive Director, Mariam Khotenashvili. The discussion explores Ukraine’s path to EU accession in light of the recent proposal by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for an associate form of EU membership for Ukraine. Frank Schimmelfennig and Tyyne Karjalainen are researchers in the InvigoratEU project funded by Horizon Europe. Frank is a Professor at ETH Zurich and a leading scholar on EU enlargement. He recently took part in the first episode of TEPSA’s InvigoratEU Talks, a new podcast miniseries on re-invigorating the EU enlargement process. Tyyne is a Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where she focuses on European security, defence cooperation, and the EU’s role in Ukraine. EuropeChats is the flagship podcast of TEPSA and it is part of the TEPSA Podcast Channel “Europe Speaks” Music: Worakls, 22 September 2014, Salzburg, Hungry music This video is co-funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Union Co-Funded by the European Union.