The United States and its allies are discussing imposing more sanctions against Russia for undermining a European-brokered truce in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.

• Date: 21.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 21.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine and said they were heading towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk on the southern coast, expanding their presence on what could be the next key battlefront.

• Date: 20.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Greece's government said it was up to euro zone finance ministers to decide whether to accept or reject its proposal to extend a loan agreement, in a bid to play down German comments rejecting the proposal as insufficient.

• Date: 19.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for U.N. peacekeepers to be deployed to monitor a ceasefire in east Ukraine, a proposal that pro-Russia rebels swiftly said would be in breach of a peace deal.

• Date: 19.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Sweden and Finland plan to extend their cooperation on defense and set up a joint naval task force as the two neighbors respond to rising tensions with Russia in the Baltic region.

• Date: 18.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

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/

India sealed a nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday, its first breakthrough with the new government of the tiny Indian Ocean island where China has been building ports and highways in a diplomatic push in recent years.

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

Debt-laden Greece and EU paymaster Germany struck hardline postures ahead of a crucial meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Monday on the future of an unpopular international bailout for Athens, but France called for a compromise

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