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Analyses | | Witold Rodkiewicz
Since 2015, when the Russian Contact Group for Intra-Libyan Settlement was established, Russia has been actively rebuilding its political influence in that country. The Russian policy is of a dual nature. On the one hand, Moscow is clearly…
Analyses | | Mateusz Chudziak
The Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey’s governing party, won the local election on 31 March across the country but it has lost power in eight out of the twelve biggest cities, including Ankara and Istanbul. These were the first…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski
Zuzana Čaputová, the candidate backed by the opposition, won the presidential runoff in Slovakia on 30 March. She garnered over 58% of the vote, thus beating Maroš Šefčovič, who was supported by the governing party Smer-SD (and who…
OSW Commentary | | Piotr Szymański
Regardless of how the UK leaves the European Union and what final timetable it adopts, Brexit has influenced the British debate on security policy, and may have implications for Britain’s involvement in NATO’s defence and deterrence…
OSW Commentary | | Tadeusz Iwański
The political situation in Ukraine since the ‘revolution of dignity’ and the Russian aggression has created a specific social context in which the public’s perception of the traditional politicians has started to deteriorate dramatically.…
Analyses | | Tadeusz Iwański
The first round of the presidential elections was held on 31 March in Ukraine. The results of exit polls conducted by both TV stations and a consortium of public opinion research centres (the so-called ‘national exit poll’) indicated that…
Point of View | | Jolanta Darczewska
It is generally believed that one sign that the secret services are doing their job well is media silence. In this respect, Russia is a special case: the services receive an excess of media coverage, which is part of the country’s…
Analyses | | Szymon Kardaś, Jan Strzelecki
On 22 March a meeting took place in Moscow between the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev and the chairman of Gazprom Aleksei Miller and the pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuri Boyko (the latter is a candidate…
Analyses | | Justyna Gotkowska
On 20th March Germany’s government adopted the draft federal budget for 2020 and the financial plan to 2023. According to the draft, Germany’s defence spending is set to increase to 45.1 billion euros in 2020 and account for 1.37% of the…
Analyses | | Michał Bogusz, Ryszarda Formuszewicz, Jakub Jakóbowski
On 21-27 March, the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Xi Jinping, paid official bilateral visits to three European countries, Italy, Monaco and France. During these meetings a range of economic agreements were signed,…