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Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
The presidential runoff was held on 20 May in Serbia. The snap election was unexpectedly won by the candidate of the right-wing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Tomislav Nikolic. Nikolic’s advantage over Boris Tadic, the incumbent…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 22 May, the Romanian parliament adopted a new act on the electoral system. The previous proportional electoral system has been replaced with a majority system. The new act has cancelled the five per cent electoral threshold and…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Marta Zawilska-Florczuk
On 16 May, the German president, Joachim Gauck, acting upon a motion by Chancellor Angela Merkel, dismissed Norbert Roettgen (CDU) from the post of minister for the natural environment of Germany. The justification for the dismissal of…
Analyses |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
President Vladimir Putin has decided not to attend the G8 summit at Camp David, which is held on 18-19 May; this also means the cancellation of his planned meeting with Barack Obama. Russian president will not meet the President of the…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 11 May, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka dismissed the interior minister, General Anatol Kuleshau, and appointed his former first deputy Colonel Ihar Shunievich to this position. At the same time, the Belarusian president announced a…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The political events of recent weeks have brought about new threats to the ratification of the fiscal compact in Germany and other EU countries.
OSW Studies |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
In Ukraine, alongside Ukrainians, there are very many Russians and members of other nationalities of the former Soviet Union as well as a still large group of people who identify themselves as Soviets (in…
OSW Commentary |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Konrad Mazur
The expensive energy revolution in Germany The implementation of the Energiewende is behind schedule
One year after the events of Fukushima the implementation of the new German energy strategy adopted in the summer of 2011 is being verified.
Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
7 May saw the ceremonial swearing-in of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia. He began his term in office by signing a series of decrees concerning the most important spheres; these were populist in content, but were mainly intended to…
Analyses |
| Marcin Kaczmarski
The dynamics of relations between Russia and China, both in the economic and political and military areas, confirms an ongoing shift in the balance of power in their bilateral relations to China's advantage.