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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Ukraine: another difficult wartime budget

• Kremlin escalates threats against the West

• Abkhazia: the parastate’s leader steps down

• Georgia: awaiting a turning point

• Ukraine gets ‘green light’ to attack Russian territory with Western-made missiles

• In a cool climate: controversy over the COP29 conference in Baku

• The Russians are again destroying Ukraine’s energy sector. Day 1000 of the war

• Loyalists and revolutionaries? Trump is making first foreign policy nominations

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