Supporting Ukraine: More critical than ever

He graduated from the Banking Department of the Odessa State Economic University in 2000 and later was a researcher at the University of Genova (Italy) and the Institute of the World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. [...] The tensions that keep accumulating at the geopolitical level find release in, for example, the trade wars between the US and China, Brexit, and the increase in the number of military conflicts in the world. [...] Recession, the energy crisis, the forced slowdown of the ‘green agenda’, the increasing hunger in the Southern countries, social unrest in democratic countries and active populism – each of these recent challenges has been magnified by the war that Putin is waging against Ukraine and against the rest of the Western world. [...] A country whose GDP is roughly equal in dollars to that of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg combined, and less than 5% of the combined GDP of the US and the EU, decides to invade Ukraine and indirectly take on the EU and the US. [...] That is what happened to the Dutch Republic at the start of the 18th century and the UK at the start of the 20th century.