Germany and other countries want European Union leaders to endorse a declaration saying that EU sanctions on Russia will not be eased unless Moscow complies with a Ukraine ceasefire deal, two officials said on Saturday.

• Date: 14.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Taiwan is spinning away from China's idealized model of "one country, two systems" as a renewed spirit of democracy sweeps across its political sphere, rousing a new cadre of grassroots leaders critical of a shared future with China.

• Date: 13.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are preparing to meet this month for their first talks in nearly three years, in a bid to resolve tension over Japan's wartime past and discuss a three-way summit.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried to reassure euro zone partners on Thursday that Greece would stick to an extended bailout agreement with its international creditors even as a war of words rumbled on between Athens and Berlin.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Warning Greece it had "no time to lose", euro zone ministers agreed technical talks between finance experts from Athens and its international creditors would start on Wednesday with the aim of unlocking further funding.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/