China is planning an international tourism zone in its northeastern border area with Russia and North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, in Pyongyang's latest push for new investment.

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

Greece and its international creditors started talks on Friday on reforms needed to keep the country financed, increasing the possibility of a interim compromise deal between the euro zone and Athens at a ministerial meeting on Monday.

• Date: 13.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.02.2015  |  Markets  |  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/

China offered on Thursday to mediate in stalled efforts to engage the Afghan Taliban in peace negotiations, reflecting its desire to play a more active role in a region it sees as part of its sphere of influence.

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

A ceasefire between Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces and surprisingly aggressive stimulus from Sweden's central bank injected optimism into global equity markets, which had been numbed by a stalemate over Greece debt negotiations.

• Date: 12.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  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/

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis headed for a showdown with euro zone finance ministers on Wednesday after his new leftist-led government won a parliamentary confidence vote for its refusal to extend an international bailout.

• Date: 11.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.02.2015  |  Markets  |  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/