Ukraine plans soon to launch a fresh diplomatic initiative to recover the Crimean peninsula from Russia which annexed it in 2014, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters on Wednesday.

• Date: 20.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

A Ukrainian government order to cut off trade with the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea has come into effect.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

What do a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, a Russian villager, and an American miner have in common? They have all been adversely affected by plunging oil prices.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Polish President Andrzej Duda has called on NATO to deploy "substantial" numbers of troops and equipment in Eastern Europe to safeguard Poland and the region from a more aggressive Russia.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  Security  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Iran ordered a sharp increase in oil output on Monday to take immediate advantage of the lifting of international sanctions, and some foreign firms raced to snap up deals as Tehran emerges from years of international isolation.

• Date: 18.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

• Date: 18.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Poland wants NATO to agree to deploy 'substantial' numbers of forces and equipment in central and eastern Europe to ensure the region's security in the face of a more aggressive Russia, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday.

• Date: 18.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Three Iranian-Americans left Tehran for a U.S. base in Germany on Sunday under a prisoner swap following the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran under a deal that President Barack Obama said had cut off Tehran's path to a nuclear bomb.

• Date: 17.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 17.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/