Both Germany and Ukraine have special significance for the European project. Germany is Western Europe’s economically and demographically most significant country, while Ukraine is Eastern Europe’s largest and a geopolitical pivot point. The historical links between Ukrainians and Germans run deep. And yet little attention has been paid to the nature of the relationship between the two.
While Ukrainian interest in Germany has always been high, in Germany interest in and information about Ukraine has only recently started to grow. In 2006, the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen began publishing a regular German-language electronic bulletin, Ukraine-Analysen, which has published over 200 issues so far. Two other specialized German-language websites, Ukraine-Nachrichten (News on Ukraine), founded in 2007, and Ukraine Verstehen (Understanding Ukraine), founded in 2017, are today improving German understanding of Ukraine.
