The European Union and Britain "sleepwalked" into the Ukraine crisis, failing to grasp its exceptional nature and lacking the ability to read political shifts in Russia, British lawmakers said in a report on Friday.

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

China's creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival claimants to the contested waters.

• Date: 19.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2015  |  Security  |  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/

Government forces were pulling out of an encircled town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Kiev and Europe said violated a crumbling ceasefire.

• Date: 18.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2015  |  Security  |  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/

Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday and Kiev said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered peace deal on the verge of collapse a day after it took effect.

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

A bomb exploded at an oil pipeline from Libya's El Sarir field on Saturday, halting flows to Hariga port as the country struggles to restore crude exports battered by factional fighting.

• Date: 14.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 14.02.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/