First exercises by the Ukrainian support force contingent. Day 1,721 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

A new Ostpolitik? Ukraine as a priority of the Merz government

High unemployment and labour shortages: paradoxes in Ukraine’s wartime labour market

The war in the Gulf and the challenges facing EU energy policy

Opening Pandora’s box? Instability in the Persian Gulf as a risk factor for global transport and supply chains

Build with Ukraine: Kyiv’s new approach to defence industrial cooperation with European partners

All quiet on the Eastern front: China’s economy after a year of trade war