Greece announces a controversial package of tax rises and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euros and ease its budget crisis.

• Date: 03.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

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

• Date: 25.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.02.2010  |  from bbc.co.uk

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

• Date: 25.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.02.2010  |  Security  |  from bbc.co.uk

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

• Date: 25.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.02.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

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

• Date: 25.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.02.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

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.

• Date: 24.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.02.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

The US has reached out to Syria in a bid to harness its influence and engage with problematic Middle East leaders. Renewed ties between the two countries bring cautious hope of breakthroughs on a number of issues.

• Date: 24.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.02.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

Argentina's regional allies have backed its claim to the Falkland Islands as a dispute with Britain over oil escalates. The UK has started to drill in waters off the islands, a move Argentina has formally objected to.

• Date: 24.02.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.02.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle