Celine Plöger is an independent social and political scientist specialising in European Governance. She studied Political Science at the University of Bielefeld, at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Corvinus University of Budapest. Celine holds a Master’s degree in European Governance from the University of Osnabrück. Her studies focused on the Eastern Neighborhood, the Western Balkans and South Caucasus. In her Master’s thesis, she examined the influence of the EU on energy security in the Western Balkans.