The EU has unveiled its '2020 strategy' to lead the continent away from economic crisis towards a greener, more prosperous future. However, part of the strategy has prompted concern from Germany.

• March 3, 2010

NATO currently faces one of its biggest challenges away from the battlefield as concern about the budget shortfall which is plaguing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization threatens to drive a wedge between its members.

• March 3, 2010

Telekomunikacja Polska accused of denying access to broadband network.

• March 1, 2010

Turkey's leaders meet the head of the armed forces, Gen Ilker Basbug, after multiple arrests over an alleged military coup plot.

• February 25, 2010

Viktor Yanukovych is sworn in as Ukraine's new president, despite complaints from his main rival, PM Yulia Tymoshenko.

• February 25, 2010

Twenty military officers are formally charged in Turkey with attempting to overthrow the government.

• February 25, 2010

India and Pakistan begin their first high-level talks since the attacks on Mumbai at the end of 2008, amid tensions over Kashmir.

• February 25, 2010

Vandals are thought to have opened the cisterns at an Italian oil refinery, allowing some 2.5 million liters of oil to flow into the Lambro River. Now the slick has reached Italy's most important river, the Po.

• February 24, 2010