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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Czech dilemmas over Russia and NATO

• Turkmenistan looks to the West

• Russia is absorbing South Ossetia

• The Kremlin ‘hosts’ the European extreme right

• German companies suffer losses in Russia

• Germany’s idea of a European army

• Kyiv refuses to make concessions to the separatist ‘republics’

• Crimea, one year after the annexation: the end of the honeymoon?

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