After the Bundestag’s deci­sion to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine, a con­tro­ver­sial debate has flared up about Germany’s atti­tude towards the Russian war of aggres­sion against Ukraine.  The sig­na­to­ries call on Chan­cel­lor Olaf Scholz and the German gov­ern­ment to ...

Just a day after the first videos of the Bucha mas­sacre were posted to social media, on 3 April 2022, Hungary’s FIDESZ-Chris­t­ian Demo­c­ra­tic alliance won its fourth con­sec­u­tive land­slide victory with 54,10%,...

Russia’s war of aggres­sion against Ukraine is a turning point for Europe and the whole world. What are its policy impli­ca­tions? Are the sanc­tions imposed so far suf­fi­cient to contain the...

Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine is reach­ing a per­ilous stage. The West needs to step up efforts to make Putin’s war unwinnable. Con­ces­sions will only prolong his regime and increase Moscow’s appetite...

Moldova, a country in the heart of Europe, its current lead­er­ship and first and fore­most its people, opened not only its borders but also their homes for the suf­fer­ing neigh­bours. The...

Mil­i­tary expert Gustav C. Gressel on the war in Ukraine: The outcome will depend in part on whether the West sup­plies Ukraine with the weapons it needs. It is also...

On 22 March, at 2 pm, the Center for Liberal Moder­nity in coop­er­a­tion with Naftogaz Ukraine and the Ukrain­ian Fed­er­a­tion of Employ­ers of the Oil and Gas Indus­try invites you to...

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

By waging a war against Ukraine, Putin has badly mis­cal­cu­lated. The Russian leader has become victim of his own pro­pa­gan­dis­tic visions and failed to antic­i­pate the Western respo­nse, writes Vladislav Inozemtsev.

How should we deal with a repres­sive and con­fronta­tional Russia? Join our annual dis­cus­sion “Russia and the West” on 24 March, which will be held jointly with the Munich Secu­rity Conference...

We must stop funding Putin’s war with our energy imports

French elec­tion cam­paigns are usually des­per­ately navel-gazing. Foreign policy issues are all but absent from the debate. And even in ‘ordi­nary’ times, all main­stream evening news pro­grammes con­sider inter­na­tional news...

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

State­ment on the Russian inva­sion of Ukraine

Two promi­nent members of the Ukrain­ian par­lia­ment appeal to their col­leagues in the German Bun­destag to stand by Ukraine in the face of Russian threats of war.