NATO's plan to beef up its military presence in eastern Europe does not violate a post-Cold War deal struck with Russia on military force levels in the region, new alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on a visit to Poland on Monday.

• Date: 06.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The Russia-led South Stream undersea gas pipeline is still going ahead, Energy Minister Alexander Novak was quoted as saying on Saturday, following concerns the European Union might be losing enthusiasm for the project.

• Date: 04.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.10.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The Philippines has stopped all development work in the disputed South China Sea because of the impact such activity might have on an arbitration complaint it has filed against China, a defense official said on Friday.

• Date: 04.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Manufacturing growth in the euro zone slowed further in September as new orders contracted for the first time in over a year on dwindling demand at home and from abroad, a business survey showed on Wednesday.

• Date: 04.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.10.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Friday the mortar fire that killed a Swiss worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine was fired from territory controlled by Ukrainian government forces.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Friday of helping separatists step up pressure on government troops holding the main airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, threatening a fragile ceasefire.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday it was essential that both Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists fully observed a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine clinched nearly a month ago.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Latvians look likely to back their hawkish centre-right ruling coalition in a parliamentary election on Saturday amid increased tensions with giant neighbor Russia, Riga's communist-era ruler, over the Ukraine crisis

• Date: 02.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/