The grant­ing of can­di­date status does not mean acces­sion: it is above all a recog­ni­tion of the progress Ukraine has made in reforms and a great sym­bolic gesture to a people who are...

Hong Kong’s free society is being destroyed by China’s National Secu­rity Laws. With the elec­tion of John Lee as Chief Exec­u­tive, a night­mare has come true for Hong Kong’s democ­racy movement....

So far, the people of Ukraine have borne the burden of the war all alone. For the German precept of “never again”, this is a reality shock, com­ments Marieluise Beck.

Based on six cri­te­ria of the United Nations Con­ven­tion against Geno­cide, Russia is com­mit­ting geno­cide in Mar­i­upol, says Inter­na­tional law expert Otto Luchterhandt.

Polit­i­cal sci­en­tist Olek­san­dra Keudel warns of Euro­pean and global con­se­quences in the case of Russian attacks on Ukrain­ian nuclear power plants.

How should the West counter Russian threats of war? We doc­u­ment Ralf Fücks’ OP ED at DIE WELT, 21.12.2021.

The con­sid­er­able break­throughs in the EU-Ukraine eco­nomic agenda have been harmed by slug­gish polit­i­cal devel­op­ment, par­tic­u­larly con­cern­ing the rule of law. The judi­cial reform, anti-cor­rup­­tion efforts, inde­pen­dent and effi­cient law-enforcement...

The impact of the Biden-Merkel-Agree­­ment on Nord Stream 2 in Ukraine is simply dis­as­trous. Espe­cially among western ori­ented, reform-minded people trust in Germany and the US fell at a record low. China...

A com­men­tary by Ralf Fücks on Putin’s latest his­tor­i­cal policy man­i­festo, pub­lished by the Kremlin.

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

In the coali­tion agree­ment, the CDU and the SPD dodge impor­tant reforms and take a scat­ter­shot approach to the dis­tri­b­u­tion of a great deal of money. The big chal­lenges, like climate, demographic...