Must-Reads

Ukraine - Ukraine economy to shrink by almost half this year, World Bank forecasts, Phillip Inman, The Guardian

Ukraine - A Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Torbjörn Becker, Barry Eichengreen, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Sergei Guriev, Simon Johnson, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Kenneth Rogoff and Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Ukraine/Russia - Russia and Ukraine: The economic consequences of peace, Randy Bregman, William Courtney and Howard J. Shatz, The Hill

Russia - Quo Vadis Europe? The “Russian Question”, Andrew A. Michta, Orbis

Europe/Nuclear - Will the Ukraine war change Europe’s thinking on Nuclear? Dave Keating, Energy Monitor

Energy - Electric vehicle targets ‘impossible’ without changes to lithium pipeline, James Fernyhough, Financial Times

US - Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman justice. Here’s how she will change the Supreme Court, Candice Norwood, the 19^th

France - Macron to Face Le Pen for President as French Gravitate Toward Extremes, Roger Cohen, New York Times

France - Nerves for EU and NATO as Le Pen heads into second round clash with Macron, Clea Caulcutt, Politico

Moldova - Justice Reform as the Battleground for Genuine Democratic Transformation in Moldova: Insights for the Eastern Partnership, Dumitru Minzarari, SWP  

China - Foreign cash flees China as investors shun autocracies, Takeshi Kihara and Akira Inujima, Nikkei Asia