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Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The outbreak of the coronavirus has caused serious problems for the German economy due to the exceptionally high degree of its internationalisation. 9 March saw the biggest slump on the German stock exchange since the attacks on the World…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis in Berlin on 9 March. During the meeting she promised that Germany would accept some of the minor refugees from the camps in Greece, who number between 1000 and 1500…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
On 10 March the Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared in the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) to give an unannounced speech. Formally, it was a response to two requests made by deputies debating the amendments to…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański, Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 4 March, the Ukrainian parliament accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk, and with him the entire government (353 votes for the motion). Speaking before the vote, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked him for his…
Analyses |
| Mateusz Seroka
On 3 March the Slovenian parliament appointed Janez Janša prime minister. Janša is the leader of the opposition centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS). The SDS will form a coalition government with another opposition party, the…
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Dębiec, Mateusz Gniazdowski
The parliamentary elections in Slovakia held on 29 February were won by Igor Matovič’s grouping Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO). It received 25% of the vote, and will be the major force in the new government coalition…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Całus
In November 2019 a new government took power in Moldova under Ion Chicu as prime minister. Formally non-partisan, the new cabinet is in fact controlled by President Igor Dodon and the pro-Russian Party of Socialists of the Republic of…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The US-China trade deal (so-called ‘Phase 1’) came into effect on 14 February. One of its key provisions is that China is obliged to buy US goods worth US$200 billion in 2020–2021. The two countries have also halved the customs tariffs on…
Analyses |
| Mateusz Chudziak, Witold Rodkiewicz
On 19 February the Syrian armed opposition, supported by Turkish forces, attempted a counter-offensive against the Assad regime’s army, with support from Russian air forces. In the first phase, these actions enabled the opposition to break…
OSW Commentary |
| Justyna Gotkowska
In February this year, at the École de Guerre in Paris and at the Munich Security Conference, France’s President Emmanuel Macron again reiterated the need to strengthen European autonomy in foreign and security policy and presented yet…