The annual report of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute says that the world has never spent more on defense, in spite of the global financial crisis.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

While its relations with Israel continue to plummet to new depths in the wake of the Gaza flotilla raid, Turkey is considering how to handle the US as Washington tries to balance its ties with Jerusalem and Ankara.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

NATO soldiers marching in Red Square on V-E Day; Moscow agreeing on a compromise resolution of the 40-year-old sea-boundary dispute with Norway; the sight of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin kneeling at the memorial to the Polish officers murdered by Josef Stalin at Katyn: These are a few glimpses of what a European newspaper described as a kinder, gentler Russia. But three questions immediately arise: Is this real? Why the change? And how to respond to Russia's new foreign policy?

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from japantimes.co.jp

A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders, including those in Central Asia.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Russia and the Ukraine got an agreement on nuclear fuel supply for the local atomic plants this year.

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from prensa-latina.cu

Afghan security forces patrol ahead of Wednesday's start of a three-day peace conference in Kabul. KABUL—The Afghan government kicks off a national assembly in Kabul Wednesday, the first in a string of events that officials hope will chart a path to reconciliation with insurgents, seize the political initiative from the Taliban and lay the groundwork for...

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from World News

Vilnius is hosting the Baltic Development Forum and the Baltic Sea States Summit. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is expected to meet on Wednesday with regional representatives, including the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Norway.

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from earthtimes.org

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said at a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today that the bloc is seriously concerned about the situation in Russia for human rights activists and journalists.

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Radio Free Europe