Europe urgently needs to rearm. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the broader threat that President Vladimir Putin’s regime poses to Europe, requires nothing less.

Presidential elections in Poland are set to take place on 18 May 2025.

The crisis in US-Ukraine relations has entered a new phase. After last week's behind-the-scenes pressure on Ukraine over a mineral resource agreement and a nearly derailed high-level meeting in Munich, Donald Trump has now personally attacked Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

European leaders knew that Vladimir Putin in the East and Donald Trump in the West would be a strategic nightmare scenario.

One of Europe's biggest problems in times of global crisis remains a lack of leadership. And as long as Olaf Scholz remains the German Chancellor, the leader of Europe's largest economy, this problem is unlikely to go away.

In the spring of 2022, Polish politicians competed over who could offer the most support to Kyiv. They are competing nowadays over who can hit Ukrainians the hardest.

Nearly 6,000 participants gathered over three days at the Munich Security Conference to discuss the future of the world and Ukraine.

On Sunday, Germany held its first-ever "quadrille" – a pre-election debate featuring four chancellor candidates, highlighting the growing strength of the far-right.

At the end of last week, Munich became the stage where the world order is being shaped. It wasn’t just because of Vice President JD Vance’s speech, in which he declared an end to the era of shared US-European values and openly backed far-right forces in European politics.

Austria’s first-ever far-right chancellor and one with close ties to Russia. This scenario seemed almost inevitable until recently. But it has been avoided, at least for now.

In 1995, Donald Trump took his hotel-casino company, DJT, public. At the time, the company owned just one operational hotel in Atlantic City and an unfinished one in Indiana.

On 11 February, US President Donald Trump initiated events that could lead to a full-scale trade war, the consequences of which may prove highly undesirable for Ukraine as well.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has found a new enemy – an internal one this time. The party Demokrati (Democrats) has been declared the enemy, accused of organising last year’s assassination attempt on Fico. As a result, the current government plans to seek the party’s deregistration.

Chișinău and Tiraspol have agreed on a gas supply scheme for Transnistria until the end of February.

Poland has been shaken by a high-profile event. On 31 January, police detained former minister of justice and prosecutor general Zbigniew Ziobro, right after his live TV interview.

Ukraine aims not only to start accession negotiations, but also to open all the negotiation clusters by the end of 2025.

"Russia remains an occupier, but no longer an enemy" – a bizarre formula, yet one that the Georgian government has now adopted and is actively instilling in the consciousness of Georgian citizens.

On 9 February, parliamentary elections in the Republic of Kosovo are set to be held.

On 5 February, France's new government, led by François Bayrou, survived two consecutive no-confidence votes, thereby securing approval of the state budget for the current year through a special procedure.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are attempting to pressure Kyiv into reopening the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory.