Heads of state and government from all 32 NATO countries, including U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will attend as an invited guest, are set to gather at Ankara’s Beştepe Presidential Complex for the alliance’s summit on July 7-8, 2026.The meeting will be judged not by another declaration of unity, but by whether NATO can turn its commitments into the forces, industrial capacity and digital resilience needed to deter Russia. These questions were at the center of a June 23 press briefing held by the Center for European Policy Analysis, which NV English attended.

Air raid sirens have become the background sound of childhood in Ukraine. War has never been about headlines or statistics: for Ukrainian children it is the memories of missile attacks on their houses, schools and hospitals; weeks spent in basements without basic necessities; sudden unexplained destruction of their routine and education; urgent need to leave their homes; and for some interrogations at checkpoints, family separation, abduction, deportation and forcible transfer and the transformation of identity under Russian occupation. 

When hundreds of drones are flying over Kyiv, the last thing on Ukrainians' minds is whether the name of a new military unit will offend the Poles.

January 2008… Negotiations between Ukraine and the EU on a new enhanced agreement to replace the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement have been under way for almost a year.

As of May 2026, in the heart of Europe, in Ukraine, the largest war since World War II and the bloodiest in terms of casualties in the 21st century is still ongoing.

For decades, developmental psychology treated adulthood as a finished state, as if identity crises belonged only to adolescence while adults had already “figured themselves out.”