First exercises by the Ukrainian support force contingent. Day 1,721 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Threatening a pivot towards Asia: a new Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation

• Germany: a budget anticipating harder times

• The new government in Estonia

• Further tensions between Turkey and the EU

• Angela Merkel is the CDU’s candidate for chancellor

• Russia is ever closer to building a nuclear power plant in Hungary

• Germany on Trump’s future policies: fear of anti-globalisation

• President Radev: a time of political changes in Bulgaria

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

A new Ostpolitik? Ukraine as a priority of the Merz government

High unemployment and labour shortages: paradoxes in Ukraine’s wartime labour market

The war in the Gulf and the challenges facing EU energy policy

Opening Pandora’s box? Instability in the Persian Gulf as a risk factor for global transport and supply chains

Build with Ukraine: Kyiv’s new approach to defence industrial cooperation with European partners

All quiet on the Eastern front: China’s economy after a year of trade war