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OSW Commentary | | Krzysztof Dębiec
The election to Slovakia’s unicameral parliament, scheduled for 30 September, will bring significant changes to the composition of the National Council, and the new government is likely to adjust the country’s foreign policy. The left-…
Analyses | | Bartosz Chmielewski
On 15 September, the Latvian parliament (Saeima) gave a vote of confidence to the government of Prime Minister Evika Siliņa: 53 out of 100 MPs were in favour while 39 voted against. The new cabinet will be formed by three political forces…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak, Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec, Kamil Całus, Łukasz Kobeszko, Andrzej Sadecki
On 15 September, the European Commission decided not to extend the restrictions on imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine which have been in place since May. On the same day, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary unilaterally…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 13 September, Ukrainian forces carried out a combined attack on Russian naval facilities in Sevastopol and the missile corvette Vasily Bykov which operates in the Black Sea; the Ukrainians used surface kamikaze drones and Storm Shadow…
OSW Commentary | | Bartosz Chmielewski, Jacek Tarociński
The migratory pressure on the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian borders with Belarus which has been ongoing since mid-2021, as well as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have spurred the Baltic states and Finland to ramp up their…
Analyses | | Michał Kędzierski
On 8 September the Bundestag passed an amendment to the Buildings Energy Act (Gebäudeenergiegesetz, GEG) which was backed by the SPD-Greens-FDP coalition. It includes new regulations on the installation of heating devices in Germany, and…
Analyses | | Kamil Całus
The first half of September saw two developments in Moldova which have limited Gazprom’s influence in the country. On 3 September, Moldova’s president Maia Sandu announced the completion of the external audit of the so-called historic debt…
Analyses | | Filip Rudnik
In late August, Gazprom published its financial report for the first half of this year. It gave the company’s net income as 296.2 billion roubles ($3.1 billion), an exceptionally low figure compared to the previous decade (excluding 2020,…
Analyses | | Adam Michalski
On 6–7 September, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi visited Ankara. He held talks, among others, with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey. At a joint conference,…
OSW Commentary | | Zuzanna Krzyżanowska, Adam Michalski
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the recent presidential and parliamentary elections, which means that the current political and social order in Turkey will be preserved. At present, the government camp…