On 1 January 2025, an agreement between Russia and Ukraine which had allowed the transit of Russian gas through the Ukrainian pipeline network to customers in the European Union and

Drones have become a central weapon of the Russo-Ukrainian war, with the number of uncrewed systems—mostly airborne but not exclusively—reaching astonishing levels. In early 2024, Ukraine aimed to produce one

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As Austrian diplomats Emil Brix and Erhard Busek wrote in Central Europe Revisited, “the future of Europe depends on central Europe.” They point out that the European Union must take

Problem As of 1 January, Russian gas no longer flows west through Ukrainian pipelines, as the residual contract signed in 2019 expired. European countries were well prepared, except for the

The migration deal between Italy and Albania got off to a rocky start. With the first migrants arriving on Albanian shores in October 2024, the agreement established an Italian jurisdictional