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OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

A shadow budget Germany increases spending through special funds

Germany has found itself in a stalemate between its strict budgetary rules and the need to fight the economic crisis, cushion rising energy costs and earmark more funds for public investment. To tackle this challenge, it has decided to…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Israel prepares to retaliate on Gaza One week after the attack

Following the attack on 7 October in which Hamas militants murdered 1400 people, injured 3500 and abducted at least 199, Israel is taking retaliatory action against Gaza. So far this has taken the form of bombing raids (6000 bombs were…
Analyses | | Adam Michalski, Krzysztof Strachota

Syria renewed tensions between Turkey and the US

On 9 October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned the US that the downing of a Turkish drone by US forces in Syria would not be forgotten and promised to take the “necessary action when the time comes”. A day later, he reiterated…
Analyses | | Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski, Jakub Graca, Łukasz Maślanka

Battle of Avdiivka Day 596 of the war

At dawn on 10 October, the Russians launched an offensive operation at Avdiivka. The city and its immediate surroundings came under intense barrelled artillery fire and rocket systems (thermobaric and incendiary phosphorus shells, among…
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 (…