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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• MOL moves towards acquiring Russian stakes in Serbia’s NIS

• Trump’s Board of Peace: an alternative to the UN?

• The Fico–Trump meeting: Slovakia turns to US nuclear technologies

• Devastating Russian attacks on the capital’s energy infrastructure. Day 1427 of the war

• Bulgaria: President Radev resigns

• Brutal suppression of protests in Iran

• Trump escalates dispute over Greenland by targeting European allies with tariffs

• End of Russian gas imports to the EU: closer than ever

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