European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Warning Greece it had "no time to lose", euro zone ministers agreed technical talks between finance experts from Athens and its international creditors would start on Wednesday with the aim of unlocking further funding.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China plans to enact specific legislation to fight corruption, the head of the country's parliament said on Sunday, as the government continues its campaign against graft.

• Date: 08.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Union is ready to step up sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, but its priority is to bolster a fragile ceasefire agreed in Minsk, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday.

• Date: 06.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 06.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China's representative at talks on Iran's nuclear program said on Thursday he saw hope that a deal would be done, a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said "significant gaps" remained to be negotiated.

• Date: 05.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of "gangsterism" on Wednesday over its decision to withhold the transfer of more than $100 million a month in tax revenues it collects on the Palestinians' behalf.

• Date: 04.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/