On 19 October 2020, Tallinn hosted the 5th summit and 3rd business forum of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI), informally called the Trimarium. Launched five years ago by the presidents of Croatia and Poland, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and...
On April 24, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a first reading of the bill “On Inland Water Transport,” finally codifying important planned reforms pertaining to riverine transportation in Ukraine—in particular, on the...
Plans for a new Baltic–Black Sea waterway, passing through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, have the potential to revolutionize the geopolitics of Europe’s East as well as exacerbate East-West tensions (see EDM, February 18). The...
The countries between Russia and Old Europe lying between the Baltic and Black Seas can no longer count on the West to defend their interests against Moscow, Oleksiy Honcharenko. The US is pulling away from Western Europe, and Western...
Stanisław Karczewski, the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, has announced plans to convene a conference of representatives of Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Ukraine to discuss how to collectively...
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration. Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin and Russia’s intelligence services, says that the US...
The EU is now in a deep crisis, one that is the product not only of Britain’s vote to leave it but also of the organization’s “inability to stand up to the global economic crisis, Russian military-political and...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
