Jana Faktor Juzová is a senior research fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, the manager of the EU Enlargement Forum in Prague, and an independent consultant in EU enlargement policy and EU accession process of the candidate countries. She was a trainee in the EULEX EU’s Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo, a visiting scholar at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Brussels and ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In her research, she focuses primarily on the Western Balkans, EU enlargement policy, Europeanization and democratization in the candidate countries, as well as Visegrad cooperation and V4-Western Balkans relations.