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Analyses | | Adam Michalski

A thaw in Turkish-Greek relations

Turkish-Greek relations have remained difficult for decades and are characterised by recurring periods of heightened tensions. In addition to long-standing socially and politically charged resentments, the main source of contention between…
OSW Commentary | | OSW team

The EU debate on qualified majority voting in the Common Foreign and Security Policy Reform and enlargement

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Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein

The Balticconnector gas pipeline damage

On 8 October, the gas transmission operators (Finland’s Gasgrid and Estonia’s Elering) noticed a drop in pressure in the Balticconnector bi-directional undersea gas pipeline, which connects the gas systems of Finland and Estonia through…
Analyses | | Kamil Całus, Krzysztof Nieczypor

Zelensky in Bucharest moving towards a new opening

On 10 October, President Volodymyr Zelensky paid an official visit to Bucharest, where he met with President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, the Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and other officials.
OSW Commentary | | Maria Domańska, Iwona Wiśniewska, Piotr Żochowski

Caught in the jaws of the russkiy mir Ukraines occupied regions a year after their annexation

Although Kremlin propaganda has attempted to present the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts as permanent elements of the Russian Federation (RF), Russia’s policy towards them has been characterised by violence and…
Analyses | | Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski

The downfall of an oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky under arrest

In September, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies indicted Ihor Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine’s most prominent oligarchs, on a number of charges. On 2 September, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Bureau of Economic Security (…
Analyses | | Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński

Stalemate on the Zaporizhzhia front Day 593 of the war

Heavy fighting continues on the Zaporizhzhia front, especially in the area of the Ukrainian wedge driven into the positions of the Russian Zaporizhzhia Army Group on the Kopani-Robotyne-Novoprokopivka-Verbove line.
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

Victory for the Christian Democrats and success for the AfD in Hesse and Bavaria

In the elections to the Landtags of the German federal states of Hesse and Bavaria, held on 8 October 2023, the Christian Democratic parties, that is the CDU and the CSU, came first. In Hesse, the ruling CDU won 34.6% of the votes (+7.6…
Analyses | | Witold Rodkiewicz, Katarzyna Chawryło

Blaming the victim Russias initial reactions to the attack on Israel

By the end of the weekend of 7–8 October only the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has taken an official position on the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli territory.
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Israel attacked

On the morning of 7 October, Hamas – the radical Muslim group that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 – launched a military operation against Israel with rocket attacks and using militias to breach the security barrier in many places…