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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Behind the scenes of plan B: the migration crisis seen from the perspective of the Visegrad Group

• 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

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