The Ukrain­ian TV channel “1plus1” broad­casted live on May 8th from Berlin. During the inter­view with Marieluise Beck one of the topics was the role of NATO in the war...

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 ...

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...

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.

More than 80 schol­ars, politi­cians, busi­ness­peo­ple and civil society rep­re­sen­ta­tives have signed an appeal to the German gov­ern­ment to stop oil and gas imports from Russia. Remark­ably, the coali­tion of...

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...

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

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

Ukraine has a high poten­tial for the pro­duc­tion of “green” hydro­gen. DiXi Group’s info­graphic explains what con­di­tions must be met for hydro­gen export.

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.

After failing to agree on exclu­sive spheres of influ­ence in Europe with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion, the Kremlin is chal­leng­ing Washington’s ability to keep unity among Euro-Atlantic allies and protect European...

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

This Wednes­day, the Eastern Part­ner­ship Summit will take place for the first time in four years. On this occa­sion, Iryna Solo­nenko, Senior Fellow at the Center for Liberal Moder­nity, sheds...

As 2021 draws to a close, we look back on this year’s impor­tant events. Among them is the Crimea Plat­form, which was launched in August at Ukraine’s ini­tia­tive to shore up...

On 22 October, the foun­da­tion stone for a new memo­r­ial to the 1941 mas­sacre was laid in Odesa. The future memo­r­ial is the result of an ini­tia­tive of the Centre for...

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...

  On October 5, 2021, the Center Liberal Moder­nity held the public dis­cus­sion on pri­or­i­ties for coop­er­a­tion with Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova under the Eastern Part­ner­ship Plus project. The discussion...

Europe is suf­fer­ing from high gas prices. At some gas hubs, they increased more than 250% since January, and already have impact on the retail prices for house­holds in many...

When Angela Merkel took office as German Chan­cel­lor in 2005, she was better pre­pared for the chal­lenges on the EU’s eastern border than any other West Euro­pean head of government....

In the LibMod-Policy-Paper: Towards a Euro­pean Climate Diplo­macy, Dr. Georg Zach­mann analy­ses the exten­sion of the Euro­pean Green Deal to the three asso­ci­ated states of the EU (Ukraine, Georgia and the...

The reac­tions in Ukraine to Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­skyy recent visit to the United States vary widely and are often politi­cized. They range from state­ments that the visit lifted rela­tions to...

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...

In this analy­ses Dmytro Shulga argues for the EU and specif­i­cally Germany to con­sider it’s own strate­gic gains in offer­ing Ukraine a way to full EU mem­ber­ship over an extended amount...

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship Plus”, we are pub­lish­ing a second series of input papers on the topic of Per­spec­tives and Pri­or­i­ties Euro­pean Green Deal (EGD) in Ukraine, Georgia...

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...

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...

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

Online-Panel Dis­cus­sion on October 6, 2020, with Gunther Krich­baum, Johannes Schraps, Renata Alt, Manuel Sar­razin und others.

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship 2.0” we publish a series of arti­cles about the three EU asso­ci­a­ted states. The authors from the region (Mikheil Benidze, Volodymyr Yer­molenko, Victor Gotisan)...

In the LibMod policy paper: “The Eastern Partnership’s Missing Secu­rity Dimen­sion” Gustav C. Gressel analy­ses the pre­car­i­ous secu­rity sit­u­a­tion in the three EU asso­ciate coun­tries and sheds light on EU...

As part of our project “Eastern Part­ner­ship 2.0” we publish a series of arti­cles about the three EU asso­ci­a­tion states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova). Three authors from the region (Veronika Movchan, Irina...

An inter­view with Dr. Ulana Suprun, former acting min­is­ter of Health of Ukraine (2016–2019) on the government’s response to COVID-19, includ­ing an erratic com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­egy, a lack of trans­parency and corruption...

Many EU cap­i­tals regard Belarus as an exten­sion of Russia and take little inter­est in it. EU leaders are also uncom­fort­able dealing with its long-time auto­cratic leader, Alexan­der Lukashenka. Such...

A Russian agent who switched sides is attacked with a mil­i­­tary-grade nerve agent in a provin­cial English town. Prime Min­is­ter May holds Moscow respon­si­ble for the attack. Are we back in the...

Reca­pit­u­la­tion of a fal­ter­ing peace process: the second Minsk Agree­ment of Feb­ru­ary 2015, intended to put an end to the war in eastern Ukraine and to set a polit­i­cal process in motion,...