Long-reads

"Ukraine is alive and kicking. We defeated Russia in the battle for minds of the world. We have no fear. Nor should anyone in the world have it."

Kyiv progresses in implementing all the European Commission recommendations. But none of them has been fully implemented yet.

Hungary has faced a financial crisis capable of collapsing its economy... Europe has never been as negative towards the Hungarian government as it is now...

There is more than a ball in the EU court now. The fact that the reform of the selection of CCU judges is a "candidate requirement" determined for Ukraine gives the European Union leverage.

It has been a sudden flare-up of "letter terrorism" in Spain. In two days, high-ranking officials and foreign diplomatic institutions received several dangerous parcels with a flammable substance. They all share one trait - they are involved in helping Ukraine in the fight against the Russian aggressor.

No surprise that after showing tangible progress in the summer, Ukraine found itself bogged down in agreeing on detailed steps with Brussels and in internal discussions.

It makes more sense for Putin not to launch nuclear weapons but only to use it as a threat... The West sees the decline of the direct nuclear threat...

Kyiv has been desperately fighting to start formal EU accession negotiations in previous months. The Ukrainian government got outraged by the fact that the European Commission had postponed by a year the assessment of Ukraine's progress in the implementation of the so-called "Seven requirements" defined by the European Commission. Without their fulfillment, it is impossible to start accession negotiations.

Ukraine plans to merge some ministries and establish the Ministry of European Integration, which is responsible for joining the EU and possibly NATO. The uniqueness of the decision is that the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy is preparing to "absorb" the Ministry of European Integration.

With the full-scale war, the Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán not only did not cut off ties with his Russian friend Vladimir Putin but, on the contrary, is getting even closer to him.

One of the most common associations with the European Union is Eurobureaucracy and slow decision-making procedures. However, the rapid and rather decisive - despite the pressure of skeptical governments - the Union's response to the Russian Federation's aggressive war against Ukraine came as a surprise to many.

The G20 Heads of State and Government Summit will kick off in Indonesia in exactly one week. "European Pravda" learned the draft decisions of this meeting and discovered that it carries a serious, albeit hidden, danger for Ukraine and the world. The Western partners do not realise they are handing the trump cards to the Russian aggressor.

Ireland has been very clear in our strong support of Ukraine’s bid to join the EU. We are currently hosting over 55,000 Ukrainians – more than 1% of our population. 

Three and a half days took for Putin's U-turn to officially restore Russia's participation in the so-called "grain deal." This happened primarily because of Turkish pressure. Turkish President Erdoğan won the most in the new agreements with Putin.

The US ambassador to Moldova made a reassuring statement this week. According to American intelligence, there are no signs pointing to a threat of an attack by Russia on Moldova. However, the attack is already there but in a hybrid form.

On October 27, M.P. Oleksii Honcharenko was the first Ukrainian parliamentarian to speak in the Assembly (parliament) of the partially recognised Kosovo. He called on Ukraine to recognise its independence.

On Saturday evening, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation announced Russia's withdrawal from the UN-led Black Sea Grain deal on the safe sea export of agricultural products from Ukraine. Russia responded this way to what it called a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet in Russia-annexed Crimea. However, it lacks logic.

Russia could become the first state convicted of genocide. However, Ukraine's cautious position is an obstacle to condemning the Russian Federation.