Eastern Partnership, energy security, commerce and competitiveness will be among priorities of Polish presidency of the EU due to start on July 1, 2011, deputy Polish Prime Minister and Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak said Monday.

• Date: 11.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily Online

A day after 8 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a top police official said the guerrillas have massively mined the state's forested areas and it was difficult to de-mine the vast stretches.

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from IndiaTimes

British air passengers may face yet more misery as a volcanic ash cloud continues to threaten European flight schedules.

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Victory Day in World War II. Arguably, it is not a parade of NATO troops but rather of Russia's erstwhile allies in the coalition against Adolf Hitler. Nor are parades necessarily the stuff of real politics or the harbingers of military alliances. Yet,

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

President Obama is "very concerned" about Greece's economic crisis, sees mounting threats against the United States from non-state actors and wants to resolve the dispute with Russia over adoptions, he said in an interview released Saturday by the White House.

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from cnn.com

Weak prospects for opening even one new chapter in Turkey's EU accession talks are souring the festive atmosphere surrounding Europe Day.

• Date: 09.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Energy-rich Azerbaijan is ready to supply half its natural gas extracts to the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline intended to pump gas to Europe, a presidential administration official said on Thursday. Nabucco, whose planned pipeline would bypass Russia, is a rival project to the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas pipeline.

• Date: 08.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from neftegaz.ru

Chinese President Hu Jintao's attendance at the World War II Victory Day celebrations here would be a significant political step promoting Sino-Russian relations, said a leading Russian expert on Far East studies in a recent interview with Xinhua.

• Date: 08.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from sina.com