Russia and the Germans
A Com­pli­cated Affair

The protests in Belarus in 2020 did not lead to a change in gov­ern­ment. But Lukashenko’s chosen way of brutal suppres­sion will not gain him any popular support — and is...

In late March 2021 Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky revoked a decree made by runaway pres­i­dent Viktor Yanukovych appoint­ing Olek­sandr Tupyt­sky and Olek­sandr Kas­minin to the Con­sti­tu­tional Court. This raised eye­brows in...

Since January 2021 there has been growing mil­i­tary esca­la­tion in con­flict-affected areas of Donbas. Russia has built up mil­i­tary equip­ment deploy­ment along the Russian-Ukrain­ian border, repo­si­tioned its army and strengthened...

Lukas Daubner argues that the liberal forces of all stripes should once again take a pos­i­tive view of the future.

Slo­va­kia is one of the coun­tries hardest hit by the pan­demic in Europe. After MP Matovic and several min­is­ters resigned, liberal oppo­si­tion politi­cian Michal Simecka demands a fast solu­tion to the...

The ana­lyt­i­cal paper “Invest­ment plans of the EU: oppor­tu­ni­ties for Ukraine in the area of the Euro­pean Green Deal imple­men­ta­tion” iden­ti­fies the most impor­tant spheres of involve­ment for the Ukrainian...

Anna Donath, MEP, com­ments on Orban’s FIDESZ Party leaving the Euro­pean People Party’s (EPP) faction in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment and a new alliance of the Hun­gar­ian oppo­si­tion gainst the anti-euro­­­pean Prime...

Armenia’s Prime Min­is­ter Nikol Pashinyan is facing protests and requests to resign after Armenia lost the war with Azer­bai­jan for Nagorno Karabakh. Richard Giragosian, Direc­tor of the inde­pen­dent Think­tanks Regional...

Only tem­porar­ily, says Michael Zürn, Direc­tor at the Berlin Social Science Center.