Italy and China signed business deals worth about 8 billion euros ($10 billion) on Tuesday in sectors ranging from energy to engineering, deepening Beijing's commercial ties with the euro zone's No. 3 economy.

• Date: 17.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia and Ukraine made progress on Friday towards resolving a dispute over gas supplies in time for winter, but European leaders said Moscow still had to do much more to prop up a fragile ceasefire and end fighting in eastern Ukraine.

• Date: 17.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.10.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China will toughen audits of its military and target older officers to ensure that corrupt individuals are denied promotion and cannot get away with their crimes, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

• Date: 16.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 16.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to increase intelligence sharing between Moscow and Washington on Islamic State militants, focusing on a common enemy even as deep divisions remained over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 15.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko will look for ways to settle a dispute over natural gas supplies and end months of conflict in east Ukraine at talks in Italy this week.

• Date: 15.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia and China signed energy, trade and finance agreements on Monday proclaimed by Moscow as proof that a policy turn to Asia is bearing fruit and will help it to weather Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

• Date: 13.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to withdraw to their permanent bases after military exercises in Rostov region near the border with Ukraine, the Kremlin said, in a sign of some tension easing before a key meeting next week.

• Date: 12.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 12.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin could hold talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko next week on the sidelines of a summit of Asian and European leaders in Milan, the Kremlin said on Thursday.

• Date: 09.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 09.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/