Han var Europas yngsta premiärminister som skulle leda Ungern mot Nato och EU, men som med åren blev unionens stora huvudvärk.

Ukrainians I met in Kyiv and Lviv were grimly realistic about the end of the war. We should follow their example, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

In the post-Soviet states, statues can be removed and street names changed. But achieving sovereignty of memory is far harder, says exiled Russian novelist Sergei Lebedev

Quick Impressions: Kyiv, May 2025

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SCEEUS Publication | Hungary, Ukraine and the EU: The Situation and What To Do  | By Klara Lindström

Today is victory in Europe Day. Today we remember the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, 80 years ago on this very day.   To me, this day is also about the heroism and suffering of Ukraine. Suff...

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) is establishing a European Think Tank Office in Kyiv through the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS). This Office will serve a...

The EU’s accession process ignores defence while NATO cannot cover all the candidates. Tailored defence cooperation roadmaps offer a promising path to protect Europe’s periphery without NATO…

Publications | Dispelling Myths: The Social and Economic Implications of Ukraine’s Membership of the European Union by Klara Lindström and Nicole Jeffler | SCEEUS

Välkommen på sverigepremiären den av rasande aktuella THE EUKRAINIAN!   I samband med visningen får vi besök av filmens regissör Viktor Nordenskiöld samt en av dess producenter Malcolm Dixelius.   Vik...

Publications | Dispelling Myths: The Social and Economic Implications of Ukraine’s Membership of the European Union by Klara Lindström and Nicole Jeffler | SCEEUS

SCEEUS I Quick Impressions from Baku, Azerbaijan by Hugo von Essen and Jakob Hedenskog

In a joint letter, the foreign ministers of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia called on Brussels to put forward "concrete proposals on how to decisively advance Ukraine's access...

The special tribunal would be a powerful signal to strongmen everywhere that international justice can find ways to hold leaders accountable — no matter who they are.

Russia’s war against Ukraine is not only about Ukraine’s freedom and survival, but also about the future of Europe’s hard security. Russia wants to replace the cooperative, democratic security order i...

Russia’s war against Ukraine is not only about Ukraine’s freedom and survival, but also about the future of Europe’s hard security. Russia wants to replace the cooperative, democratic security order i...

Join a European 'historian of the present' to follow history as it happens. Click to read History of the Present, by Timothy Garton Ash, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Just nu är det många som ställer sig frågan: Vad är det som händer? Uttalanden, möten och förhandlingar duggar tätt om Ukrainas framtid och europeisk säkerhet. Det här seminariet är tänkt att bringa k...

What are the political and military implications of a prolonged delay - or a complete halt - in US support? And how can Europe step up to ensure Ukraine is not left without the cards it needs?

Tallinn – Quick Impressions by Klara Lindström

Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe – with the US at its side. Now it must do it in opposition to Trump, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

USA förhandlar med Ryssland om att få slut på kriget i Ukraina. Samtidigt kallar Donald Trump Ukrainas president för en diktator. Vad innebär Trumps fred egentligen? Och har USA kastat Zelenskyj under...

The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

SCEEUS Commentary No. 5, 2025 | Can Russia Transition to Peace? by Stefan Ingvarsson and Aleksandr Golts | Centre for Eastern European Studies, SCEEUS

SCEEUS Commentary No. 6, 2025 | What is at Stake Now? | Centre for Eastern European Studies, SCEEUS

Forget about NATO and the EU. Western leaders are building a new diplomatic framework to deal with the White House’s alignment with Moscow.

This article explores the lived experiences of Ukrainian soldiers in a romantic relationship with another soldier in the same unit in the Russo-Ukrainian War. C...

SCEEUS Report No 2, 2025 | The Hard Security of EU Enlargement by Klara Lindström | Centre for Eastern European Studies, SCEEUS