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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Enforced cooperation: the Finnish-Russian migration crisis

• The four-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh

• Slovakia: Robert Fico’s third term as prime minister

• The reduction of the Russian contingent in Syria

• State elections in Germany – the CDU is weakened and Merkel is strengthened

• Another stage of the fight with the media in Turkey

• A political earthquake in Slovakia

• The Ankara-Berlin pact: how to stop the migration crisis?

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