Russia’s frontline advances slowing. Day 1560 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Merz in Israel. (Un)conditional support?

• Bulgaria: government falls under pressure from public protests

• Dispute over peace: Ukraine between US pressure and Russian demands

• North Macedonia: European integration at a crossroads

• Germany’s military service reform: voluntarism at its core

• Russia added to the EU’s ‘blacklist’ of money-laundering jurisdictions

• EDIP: more cooperation in the European defence industry

• Belarusian balloons prompt emergency situation in Lithuania

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

Year four of the war: the front stabilises, negotiations stall

Sometimes it is better not to talk. Pitfalls of potential dialogue between Europe and Russia

Trump’s deportation policy: electoral consequences and social tensions

What counts is the present: Israel’s alliance with the European right

Sky-high ambitions of the Orbán government: Budapest’s air cargo boom

Forging a nationalist model army. The political prospects of the Azov Movement