COVID EU Project
@COVIDEUProject
Studies the impact of the COVID-Pandemic on support for the European Union 🇪🇺 Funded by a Challenges for Europe grant of the @VolkswagenSt
📢 Welcome to the official Twitter account of the COVIDEU Project! Stay tuned to learn more about the project and our amazing team! 🇪🇺💙

📣 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.
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