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| Sławomir Matuszak
On 19 December Oleksandr Kubrakov, deputy prime minister for the reconstruction of Ukraine and minister for infrastructure, announced that during the four months of operation of the Ukrainian Black Sea Corridor it had managed to export 10…
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| Lidia Gibadło
According to the coalition government’s compromise on the 2024 budget (see ‘Germany: the budget crisis has been resolved’), Germany will raise its funding for military aid to Ukraine from the planned €4 billion to €8 billion in the coming…
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| Michał Kędzierski
On 19 December 2023, Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), a German state-controlled gas company, signed a long-term contract with the Norwegian Equinor energy company to supply 111 TWh of gas annually in the period from 2024 to 2034 (which…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska, Filip Rudnik
On 18 December, the Council of the European Union adopted the twelfth package of sanctions against Russia. It imposes bans on the import of Russian diamonds and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and on the export of sensitive goods to third…
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| Marta Szpala
On 17 December 2023, Serbia held its early parliamentary and local elections in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and in 66 municipalities. As regards the parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results the ruling Serbian…
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| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jacek Tarociński
In recent days conditions for troops in eastern and southern Ukraine have been difficult. Snow or rainfall and temperatures often exceeding zero have turned fields and dirt roads into quagmires. Despite this, the invaders have continued…
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| Krzysztof Nieczypor, Marta Szpala
On 14 December, the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine & Moldova, and to grant Georgia candidate status. Despite the threat of a veto, Hungary eventually abstained (Prime Minister Viktor Orbán left the…
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| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 13–15 December, the Russians drove the defenders from their last positions in Marinka. The fall of the town and the defending troops’ withdrawal from its ruins (the town has been completely destroyed during the fighting) were confirmed…
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| Michał Bogusz
Xi Jinping’s trip to Hanoi was intended to convince Vietnam to withdraw from, or at least delay, taking two foreign policy steps that would be unfavourable to China: a strategic rapprochement with the US and a deal with Manila on the South…
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| Sebastian Płóciennik
It took almost a month for Germany’s ruling coalition to decide on how to adjust the country’s financial plans for 2024 to the ruling passed by the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC).