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Tereza Novotná

Senior Associate Research Fellow
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Tereza Novotná

Senior Associate Research Fellow

Dr Tereza Novotná is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute as part of Global Europe, Affiliate Senior Researcher at the Center for European Integration at Free University Berlin and a Korea Associate at 9DashLine. At FU Berlin, she led two research projects on the EU and South Korea approaches to the Covid19 pandemic (Korea Foundation; “KOR-ON-EU”) and on the EU’s foreign policy towards North Korea (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action “EUSKOR”). She also collaborates with the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles where she held two post-doc positions from 2012 to 2017. In 2017-2018, Tereza was a Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at the EU Center at Seoul National University and a Fudan Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai and in 2024, she was a visiting professor at LUISS University Rome.

Tereza received her Ph.D. in Politics and European Studies from Boston University and other degrees from Charles University Prague. Tereza is the author of the monograph How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a co-editor of a special issue for Asia Europe Journal on EU-Korea relations. She has widely published on EU foreign policy in, among others, Journal of European IntegrationJournal of Common Market Studies, Studia Diplomatica, German Politics and Society, West European Politics, and Journal for Contemporary European Research as well as numerous policy and media outlets, including and on the EU-North East Asia/Indo-Pacific relations in 38th North, The Diplomat, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 9DashLine, Asia Trends, NK Pro, Bulletin of the East West Center Washington and others. Tereza has been a frequent commentator in English, Czech and German for media outlets such as Indus News, ZDF, Die Welt and Czech TVs, NK News, several German and Swiss radio stations and Radio Free Asia. She has also practical experience from working for the European Commission, DG RELEX/EEAS, the EU Delegation in Washington, DC and the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU.

NTV: North Korea reduces dependence on China by deals with Russia

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15. 9. 2023
Tereza Novotná, an expert from EUROPEUM, spoke about the summit between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin on German NTV.

National Convention on the EU | Recommendation: response to the US Inflation Reduction Act

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10. 5. 2023
Our Associate Research Fellow Tereza Novotná and our Senior Research Fellow Kateřina Davidová wrote recommendations arising from the roundtable discussion of the National Convention on the EU held on 28 April 2023 on the topic "Reactions to the US Inflation Reduction Act".

National Convention on the EU | Background paper: reaction to the US Inflation Reduction Act

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25. 4. 2023
Kateřina Davidová and Tereza Novotná prepared a background paper for the Round Table of the National Convention on the EU on Reactions to the US Inflation Reduction Act. Three main questions are put to the Roundtable: What impact can the IRA have on Transatlantic relations and free trade in general, and how should the EU try to actively shape these relations? How can the EU ensure the competitiveness and strengthen the productivity of its industry in the future and promote the development of EU produced green technologies? How will the changes affect the Czech Republic directly and how should the Czech Republic proceed within the EU to avoid being left behind in the "green race"? Which specific climate-neutral (net-zero) industrial sectors should the Czech Republic focus on?

9DASHLINE: SEOUL CANNOT HAVE A CREDIBLE INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY WITHOUT TAIWAN

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30. 8. 2022
Tereza Novotná, an associate research fellow at our Institute, is a co-author of an article on 9DASHLINE, about Korea's need to cooperate with Taiwan in order to have a credible Indo-Pacific strategy.

Korea on Point: Neither Eastern Europe nor North Korea but the Indo-Pacific is the Future: The Prospects and Challenges for EU-Korea Relations under the Yoon Ad

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30. 8. 2022
Tereza Novotná, an associate research fellow at our Institute, wrote an article for Korea on Time, where she argues, that from a security perspective, the EU-South Korea partnership has been marked by three key topics: the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, North Korea, and US-China strategic competition. It would be a smart choice for Yoon’s team to continue and expand on the New Southern Policy rather than trying to come up with a new framework. In the end, it will be neither Eastern Europe nor North Korea but the Indo-Pacific which will hold the key to the future of the EU-Korea partnership.

E15: Germany continues to look for a way out of the energy crisis, confirms Scholz's visit to Prague

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30. 8. 2022
Tereza Novotná, an associate research fellow at our Institute, has provided a commentary for the E15 portal. In the article, she discusses the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Prague and the energy crisis that threatens the EU. According to Novotná, responsibility also lies with other countries, including the Czech Republic, which also failed to develop other energy sources in time.

National Convention on the EU: RECOMMENDATION: EU relations with the Indo-Pacific region from the perspective of the Czech Republic

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2. 5. 2022
The latest National Convention on the EU took place on 29 April 2022. Here is a summary of the main points discussed at the Convention. The recommendations were prepared by Tereza Novotná and Alexandra Visnerová.

ČRo: German reaction to the re-election of Emmanuel Macron - a clear pro-European signal

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26. 4. 2022
Our Associate Research Fellow, Tereza Novotná, was interviewed by Czech Radio about the French presidential election in which Emmanuel Macron was re-elected and France's position in the European Union.

National Convention on the EU: EU relations with the Indo-Pacific region from the perspective of the Czech Republic

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25. 4. 2022
Tereza Novotná, Senior Associate Research Fellow, and Alexandra Visnerova, project manager, prepared a background paper on EU-Indo-Pacific relations from the perspective of the Czech Republic. How will the new geopolitical context resulting from the war in Ukraine affect the Indo-Pacific region, including relations with China, and how should the EU respond? Which other partners should the EU work with and which ones should the Czech Republic focus on as a priority during its EU Council Presidency? Which sectors within the European Indo-Pacific Strategy should the EU focus on most and which should the Czech Republic prioritise during its Presidency of the Council?

e15.cz: What Merkel's successors are planning: wage increase, digitalization and continuation of Nord Stream 2

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2. 12. 2021
What will the new government do for the environment? And how are German-Russian relations likely to develop? Our research associate Tereza Novotná and the institute's director Zdeněk Beránek contributed to this article on what the future German coalition is up to.

RECOMMENDATION: National Convention on EU Affairs: Strategic autonomy of the European Union

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7. 6. 2021
We bring you a summary and recommendations resulting from the National Convention on the EU on strategic autonomy of the European Union, which took place on May 22 in the online environment and of which our institute is a guarantor.

National Convention on EU Affairs: Strategic autonomy of the European Union

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18. 5. 2021
Our institute is a guarantee of the National Convention on EU Affairs on the topic of Strategic autonomy of the European Union, which will take place online on Friday 21 May.
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