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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Turkey and the EU: the play for a security zone in Syria

• The Minsk agreement: one year of shadow boxing

• Talks in Geneva: a Turkish-Saudi axis?

• Norway’s Statoil competing with Gazprom on the Lithuanian market

• The resignation of Ukraine’s Minister of Economy

• Ukraine: successful diversification of gas supply

• Kazakhstan: anti-crisis parliamentary elections

• Kadyrov attacks the Russian opposition

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