Wider Europe

Ukraine: The case for ‘voor’

Ahead of the Dutch Ukraine referendum, ECFR co-chair Carl Bildt makes the case for greater integration and cooperation with Europe's eastern neighbour

How not to talk with Russia

Some argue that Russia has been treated “as more than equal”, but in Moscow's view it is doomed to remain a peripheral power in a NATO/EU dominated world

Kaliningrad: Russia’s stagnant enclave

On 1 April, Kaliningrad’s special economic zone privileges expire, meaning that it will lose its right to duty-free trade and will have to stand on its own two feet

Beyond the Minsk Agreements

Why and how a combined UN/EU peacekeeping mission could disentangle the Donbas conundrum