Professor Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka

Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she leads her research project EUDIS “Between politicization and legitimacy: transnational political discourse on EU institutional reform” funded by the National Science Centre.

Karolina is also associate professor at the University of Wrocław (currently on leave) and associate research fellow at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne in the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP) where she previously lectured. Since 2024 she has been the Vice-President of the Polish Association of European Studies (PTSE). In the past Karolina worked as a head of EU program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), lecturer at the Paris 2 – Panthéon Assas and at the Masaryk University. She was also a visiting fellow at Sciences Po Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as „West European Politics”, “European Political Science Review”, „Journal of European Integration”, „Journal of Legislative Studies” and “Parliamentary Affairs” among others.

Karolina is also an expert of Team Europe Direct  and a regular media commentator on European politics and policies.

Research Interests:

• Comparative European politics
• EU institutions and reform
• EU transnational democracy, European Parliament and national parliaments
• Polish and French European policy
• Discourse analysis

Latest publications:

• Borońska-Hryniewiecka, K., Sus, M. (2026) The Illusion of Convergence? Exploring the Patterns of (De-)politicization of the Russian War against Ukraine in the European Parliament, Journal of European Integration 48(2)
• Borońska-Hryniewiecka, K., Kotýnek Krotký, J. (2025) Easier said than done: the European Parliament’s entrepreneurs in the treaty change discourse. West European Politics, 1–27, https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2557032
• Borońska-Hryniewiecka, K., Kinski, L. (2025) The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe: Synergies and Legitimacy Clashes. Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/The-Parliamentary-Dimension-of-the-Conference-on-the-Future-of-Europe-Synergies-and-Legitimacy-Clashes/Boronska-Hryniewiecka-Kinski/p/book/9781032747644

External Links:

• ORCID Profile:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-5163
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9nojpsAAAAAJ&hl=pl

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolina-boro%C5%84ska-hryniewiecka-84441310b/