A sham “energy truce”. Day 1441 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Salome Zurabishvili, Georgia’s new president

• Russia’s budget for 2019–2021: increasing reserves, decreasing transparency

• The Russian attack on Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea: the military aspects

• Martial law in ten regions of Ukraine

• Consequences of the incident in the Sea of Azov

• Pipeline success for Russia: TurkStream’s offshore section completed

• Hungary: asylum for ex-prime minister of Macedonia

• Local election in Slovakia: Smer comes first, but not unscathed

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey in the Black Sea region: increased cooperation?

NATO summit in The Hague: Trump’s return and a two-component 5% of GDP on defence

Open code, closed system: the role of open source in China’s technological rivalry with the United States

Discipline and punish: how Turkey controls the internet

Croatia’s demographic crisis: how to address depopulation

The CDU/CSU–SPD government facing economic challenges