Veterans: Access to housing
This briefing provides an overview of the housing support available to veterans across the UK.
Violence has been increasing in eastern Ukraine, leading to calls for the West to arm the Ukrainian government. But Ukraine is also close to financial meltdown.
International help for the government of Ukraine (404 KB , PDF)
As violence in the east of the country increases, the Ukrainian economy, for which the industrial and more affluent east is important, continues to deteriorate. Western countries have offered political support to the Ukrainian government, have sent non-lethal weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces and have given hundreds of millions of pounds of aid, with billions more in loan facilities.
There have been predictions that the Ukrainian financial crisis will get worse and that Ukraine will need to borrow far more money to avoid financial collapse.
Western nations are divided as to whether to send lethal weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces. Meetings in Moscow and Minsk with the French and German leaders in February 2015 were described as a last chance to avert war.
International help for the government of Ukraine (404 KB , PDF)
This briefing provides an overview of the housing support available to veterans across the UK.
Austria held legislative elections on 29 September 2024. 183 members of the National Council were elected. As no party gained a majority of seats in the legislature, coalition talks to form a government continue.
As states sanction Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, this briefing sets out the arguments around seizing another state's assets, and explains the intensifying debate on how international law affects sanctions.