New Year slowdown on the front. Day 1412 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Romania: a new centre-left government

• Reverse-flow capability for Hungarian-Croatian gas pipeline interconnector – breaking the deadlock

• Problems with the car industry in Slovakia

• Turkey on the Qatar crisis

• India and Pakistan join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

• German reactions to the US Senate’s decisions to pass new sanctions on Russia

• Azeri opposition journalist kidnapped in Georgia

• Brussels’ proposal to reform the eurozone – a cool reaction from Berlin

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

The CDU/CSU–SPD government facing economic challenges

The Kaja Kallas era: Estonia’s high-profile diplomacy

The year of Péter Magyar: great expectations, great challenges

Slovakia’s depopulation: balancing support for children and senior citizens

The NB8 group and other formats of security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

Students vs the system – protest strategies in Serbia