Are high energy prices and negative growth killing Moldova’s European future? 💡 President Maia Sandu’s PAS Party lacks obvious coalition partners, Russian-backed actors are circling, and vote-buying operations are still rife. The risks at this election are real. My latest analysis on the election:

Ukraine's parliament is currently discussing easing wartime restrictions on domestic arms exports. Opening Ukraine’s defence industry would permit further cooperation with the EU and allow the country’s economy to directly benefit from European rearmament, writes @melaniap.bsky.social in POLITICO.

Is it time for Ukraine to become an arms exporter? @melaniap.bsky.social finds that counterintuitively, there are areas of Ukraine's defence industry with surplus capacity - and they're making things Europe needs. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Read my latest for @politico.eu: Despite the fast innovation cycle of the Ukrainian defence industry, there is a lot of value it can bring to Europe’s rearmament. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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