Dr. Sarah Meyer is a research associate at Danube-University Krems and heads the REGIOPARL project. She previously worked on EU policy affairs at the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Sarah Meyer received a doctorate from the University of Vienna and completed a post-graduate program on European integration at the Institute for Higher Studies in Vienna. She has worked in different research projects (among others FP7, FWF) at the University of Vienna, Innsbruck and Amsterdam. Her research focus comprises the politicisation of European integration and migration through political parties and media discourse as well as the (institutional) development of the EU.