A number of companies from the US and China plan to build networks of several thousand satellites each to enable access to the Internet from any point on Earth. These satellites will be stationed in low Earth orbit. If these plans are put into practice, the global Internet infrastructure will...

Economic stagnation and demographic change in Russia are putting intense pressure on the government budget. Tax revenues have been declining since the late 2000s. Meanwhile, the oil dependency of Russia’s budget has in­creased significantly. This became patently clear when the oil price...

Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, it is clear that the Union is no longer simply showing symbolic solidarity with neighbours invaded or threatened by Russia. Rather, a new chapter of enlargement policy is...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan began his third term in May 2023 with the appointment of Mehmet Şimşek as finance minister and the business executive Hafize Gaye Erkan as governor of the central bank. Both are widely acknowledged and experienced proponents of orthodox economics. The...

Mit der European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) will Deutschland die europäische Luftverteidigung und Raketenabwehr insbesondere gegen russische Flugkörper stärken. Zwar dürfte Moskau kurz- bis mittelfristig weder Anreize noch genügend militärische Mittel haben, um die Nato mit...

Seit Februar 2022 verteidigt sich die Ukraine gegen einen erneuten, diesmal vollumfänglichen Angriffskrieg Russlands. Nachdem sich die Maßnahmen zur unmittelbaren Unterstützung der Ukraine - militärische, diplomatische, finanzielle und humanitäre - eingespielt haben, gilt es nun, die...