Julian Plottka, Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin; and University of Passau. At the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Dipl.-Pol. Julian Plottka is a Scientific Senior Project Manager in the Horizon Europe project ‘InvigoratEU – Invigorat- ing Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe’. He is also a Research Associate at the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Passau, where his research focus includes the democratic legitimacy of the EU and institutional reforms of the EU political system. He regularly advises European and German institutions on his research topics. Previously, he worked as a Research Associate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and as a Senior Researcher at the Institut für Europäische Politik in Berlin. He studied political science at the Universities of Potsdam and Baergen and at the Free University of Berlin.