The European Commission on Tuesday published its eagerly awaited “Enlargement Package” report. This report offers the most comprehensive analysis on the state of EU enlargement and the progress, or lack thereof, of the candidate countries.

More than nine months into his second term, US President Donald Trump is no closer to bringing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to an end than he was on Day 1. But something in his thinking about the conflict is starting to change.

Last month, following a successful visit to Washington, where he signed a historic peace agreement with Armenia, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev traveled to Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, for meetings with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan.