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Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
Numerous signs have been seen over the past month proving that the German government is ready to ease the radical austerity policy in the eurozone’s most indebted member states. The campaign ahead of the elections to the Bundestag…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 29 May, Bulgaria’s parliament passed a vote of confidence for the government led by Plamen Oresharski, an economist linked to socialists. His cabinet will consist of non-partisan technocrats and politicians from the Bulgarian Socialist…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
Last week, there were reports in the pres s that Russia had supplied technologically advanced missiles to Syria. These deliveries, together with the presence of the Russian Navy off the Syrian coast, are an expression of the Kremlin’s…
Analyses |
| Ewa Fischer
Weaker than expected economic growth rates in the first quarter of this year have led the Russian government to revise its estimates of GDP growth in 2013 downwards from 3.7 to 2.4%. Although the economy has already entered a period of…
Analyses |
| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
Tension has been rising in the Southern Caucasus over the past few months. This is primarily an effect of the upcoming presidential elections in Georgia and Azerbaijan (October) and the fact that another stage bringing the region closer to…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
In mid-May, the centre-right President Traian Basescu authorised Prime Minister Victor Ponta to represent the country at the European Council summit on 22 May. Up to that point, the question of who was to participate at international…
Analyses |
| Justyna Gotkowska
On 14 May, the German Ministry of Defence announced it would be withdrawing from the planned purchased of the Euro Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles. Germany abandoning one of its largest armament programmes has turned into an unprecedented…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Całus
The economy of breakaway Transnistria is a peculiar combination of the command-and-distribution model inherited from the USSR with elements of a free-market economy which is heavily dependent on Russian energy and financial subsidies. The…
Analyses |
| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
On 11 May the first direct railway connection in history between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan was opened. The newly established route is the first railway infrastructure project to link both countries, bypassing the territory of Uzbekistan…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
On 7-8 May the US new Secretary of State John Kerry paid his first official visit to Moscow. The way the visit developed along with Kerry’s rhetoric point to the fact that the Obama administration is consistently seeking to repeat the…