The Russians are building their own Starlink system. Day 1490 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• The Russian-Chinese naval exercise in the Baltic Sea

• The consequences of recapturing Mosul from Islamic State

• The first meeting of Presidents Putin and Trump

• The European Commission seeks a mandate to conduct talks with Russia on Nord Stream 2

• Romania: a new centre-left government

• Reverse-flow capability for Hungarian-Croatian gas pipeline interconnector – breaking the deadlock

• Problems with the car industry in Slovakia

• Turkey on the Qatar crisis

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

A fragile future: decarbonisation of Germany’s steel sector

The three special cases: demographic processes in the South Caucasus

Help from the Far East: Japan’s support for Ukraine

On the eve of a parliamentary election in Moldova: a European future in the shadow of uncertain results

Putin’s elite divides the spoils in Russia: large-scale nationalisation and re-privatisation of assets

A nationalist voice of protest: the resurgence of radical parties in Bulgaria