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.

In a dramatic escalation of trade tensions, US President Donald Trump has imposed an across-the-board 10% tariff on goods from China, threatened a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and vowed similar measures against the European Union.

Norway’s ruling coalition between the Centre Party and the Labour Party collapsed last week.

Current events often resemble the past.

A potential deal between Donald Trump’s administration and Russia could have a significant impact on Europe’s energy balance and global energy markets as a whole.

It seemed that the election campaign in Germany was proceeding in a relatively calm manner, making it easy to predict the likely outcome of the vote on 23 February.