Germany will overhaul its security strategy in coming years in response to Russian attempts to use "power politics and military force" to assert its interests, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.

• Date: 17.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered peace deal on the verge of collapse a day after it took effect.

• Date: 16.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A bomb exploded at an oil pipeline from Libya's El Sarir field on Saturday, halting flows to Hariga port as the country struggles to restore crude exports battered by factional fighting.

• Date: 14.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 14.02.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels fought fiercely across the east of the country on Friday despite a new peace deal brokered by Germany and France.

• Date: 13.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine agreed a deal on Thursday that offers a "glimmer of hope" for an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine after marathon overnight talks.

• Date: 12.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine were due to attend a peace summit on Wednesday, but Ukraine's pro-Moscow separatists diminished the chance of a deal by launching some of the war's worst fighting in an assault on a government garrison.

• Date: 11.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he expected that there would be a new round of talks on the Syria conflict following from a meeting of some opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow last month.

• Date: 10.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. President Barack Obama made clear he was some way from a decision on whether to arm Ukraine in its conflict against Russian-backed rebels, saying on Monday he still hoped for a diplomatic solution.

• Date: 09.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/