The resounding parliamentary defeat suffered by the Ukrainian opposition will disappoint Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
It will also irk the European Union, especially big-hitter Germany, which is used to getting its own way in redrawing the continent's post-1991 map.
It has been practically one-way traffic since then, with Berlin leading the charge to break up the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES


