EU leaders last Friday (27 June) gave Russia a new ultimatum on sanctions, but opinion differs on when the ultimatum is due and what the reaction will be.

Jihadist group Isis demands all Muslims declare obedience to its leader as it lays claim to the mantle of the great Muslim empires of the past

Cameron says the election of Juncker makes keeping Britain in the EU a harder task.

EU leaders on Friday (27 June) nominated Jean-Claude Juncker to be European Commission president, simultaneously doling out a major diplomatic defeat for London and handing a large chunk of power to the European Parliament.

NATO Foreign Ministers have agreed that the Alliance’s door remains open to new members, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said 25 June 2014 at the start of the second day of ministerial talks.

The unprecedented show of hands will take place at a lunch in Brussels on Friday (27 June).

Prime minister calls pressure to share power in response to jihadist surge an attempted "coup".

PM said to have been warned there is no legal way to avoid defeat.

Germany, the Netherlands and the United States reportedly are weighing ending their deployment of Patriot interceptors in Turkey by the end of the year.

Jean-Claude Juncker rebukes the Prime Minister and says he will be president of the European Commission by the end of the week despite protests from Mr Cameron.

David Cameron has stepped up his campaign to block Jean-Claude Juncker from the European Commission Presidency, insisting that a vote takes place at this week's EU summit in Brussels.

The EU urged Russia to back President Petro Poroshenko's peace plan for Ukraine. But its threat of tougher sanctions, if Moscow failed to do so, appeared to only have partial support.

A draft plan for EU priorities in the coming years tries to strike a balance between the devolution of powers demanded by Britain and the anti-austerity drive of Italy, in a typical German-inspired fudge.

Poland believes the British government has “fucked up” its EU policy and that the UK will leave the Union.

Downing Street sources have said that David Cameron will seek to call a vote at this week’s EU summit on whether Jean-Claude Juncker should be appointed European Commission President.

A meeting of Socialist leaders in Paris has endorsed Juncker for the commission top job, with the expectation that Martin Schulz as European Parliament chief and the Italian foreign minister may get the foreign affairs post.

Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, has reportedly been secretly recorded rubbishing his country's relationship with the United States.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Wales Summit in September “will be one of the most important in NATO’s history."

Obama and congressional leaders on Wednesday privately confronted the politically delicate question of whether Mr. Obama would be required to ask Congress for permission to take military action against Sunni fighters in Iraq.

A Cabinet Minister is quoted in the Sun as saying that Merkel had “betrayed” Cameron by going “back on their agreement”.

The Canadian Senate Committee on National Security and Defence announced the panel was "unanimous in recommending that the government of Canada enter into an agreement with the USA to participate as a partner in ballistic missile defence.

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council met to mark the 20th anniversary of the Partnership for Peace transformed Euro-Atlantic security and NATO itself by erasing dividing lines, inspiring reforms and building peace and security.

Amid increasing East-West tensions, NATO conducts a large scale military exercise in the Baltic Sea but how will Russia react to 30 ships so close to home?

The Prime Minister calls on his fellow European leaders in the House of Commons to reject Jean-Claude Juncker's European Commission candidacy.

Plea for US help to repel ISIS jihadists threatening Baghdad puts pressure on Barack Obama to step in.

Three RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian fighters and bombers in the air over the Baltic.

Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Vershbow at the NATO Defence College in Rome on 13 June 2014

Europe’s centre-left forces are warning that Jean-Claude Juncker will have to support a loosening of the EU’s budgetary rules in exchange for their backing him for the European Commission presidency.

Ukraine fails to broker an 11th-hour deal with Russia, causing Moscow to effectively halts all shipments from Monday morning.

Mr. Fogh Rasmussen's agenda includes meetings to prepare the Wales Summit in September and to discuss the challenging situation on NATO's eastern and southern borders.

Russian firm Gazprom is stopping gas supplies to Ukraine after talks on a new price broke down in the small hours of Monday (16 June).

Talks to avert a Russian gas cut that would hit Europe stall.

Kremlin-backed rebels have been forced out of Mariupol by 'heroism' of Ukraine's troops, says president.

Russian gas exporter Gazprom will halt supplies to Ukraine if it fails to pay off part of its gas debts by Monday, Miller said yesterday.

The EU and US have urged Russia to stop arming Ukraine rebels after Ukraine said Russian tanks and artillery crossed the border on Thursday (12 June).

“Our security is interconnected” he said, “and NATO faces more than one crisis, or one challenge. We face an arc of crises from the East to the South.”

Fears of collapse of Iraqi state reignites debate over sacrifices made by Britain to topple Saddam Hussein.

NATO ambassadors in Brussels held an emergency meeting at Turkey's request today on the growing crisis in northern Iraq, after militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant kidnapped 80 Turkish citizens.

The sabre rattling between NATO and Russia continued on Monday with both sides carrying out simultaneous military drills in the Baltic region.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish prime minister and Neil Kinnock’s daughter-in-law, is understood to be among Downing Street’s preferred candidates to become next European Commission president

Failing to agree on Jean-Claude Juncker as next EU commission president, the leaders of Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands on Tuesday (10 June) said it was important to focus on EU reforms rather than names.

NATO Secretary General, speaking at the Transatlantic Bond Project Conference in Brussels, stressed the importance of a strong relationship between Europe and North America to address current security risks and threats.

Bulgaria has frozen construction on Russia’s strategic South Stream gas pipeline due to EU and US pressure.

Poroshenko Accuses Separatists of Damaging Economy, Says Violence Must Stop This Week.

The former prime minister of Luxembourg could pull out of the race to succeed Josй Manuel Barroso within weeks, after a coalition of European leaders attempted to block his candidacy.

Prime Minister issues alert over EC presidential candidiate as Barack Obama makes an impassioned plea for Britain to remain in EU.

If Requirements Not Met, Sanctions Could Hit Key Sectors of Economy.

Three B-52 nuclear-capable bombers headed to Europe on Tuesday to partake in training with allied nations there, the US military announced.

Germany has defended France’s plan to deliver a warship to Russia in October despite US criticism of the move.

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday called on NATO countries to increase their military spending in response to recent events in Ukraine.

The world's leading industrialised nations meet without Russia for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday, leaving President Vladimir Putin out of the talks.

The European Commission has indicated it will obstruct the building of a new Russia-EU gas pipeline to bypass Ukraine.

The US has unveiled plans to invest $1 billion in European security in light of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the level of NATO Defence Ministers.

Russia on Monday announced that it was conducting ballistic missile drills in its western segment of the country, which neighbours multiple NATO states.

76-year-old monarch says it's time for a younger generation to take over as he announces plan to step down amid health woes and financial scandals.

Now more than ever, it’s important that we listen to one another and talk to another. We have just had a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on the security situation in and around Ukraine.

The Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, General Knud Bartels attended the 13th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit "The Shangri-La Dialogue 2014" in Singapore from 30 May - 1 June 2014.

A British official Sunday dismissed a report that David Cameron had threatened at an EU summit last week to bring forward a referendum on British membership in the EU if Juncker became European Commission president.

Poland has confirmed that it will nominate its Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to replace Catherine Ashton as EU foreign policy chief.

Italy has backed the Prime Minister's opposition to installing a federalist in the EU's top job amid a row over who takes the post following European elections last week.

The Secretary General stressed: "What does not change is NATO’s core task: to defend and protect our Allies against attack. And make no mistake: NATO will defend every part of the Alliance".

The largest ever test of NATO’s joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (JISR) capabilities took place at Шrland Air Station in Norway between 18 and 28 May.

Those who resent Western values will now feel encouraged to challenge our interests.

The President has set the stage. The question is what acts will follow. The United States has signaled as clearly as it can that a corrupt, authoritarian, power hungry, sectarian thug like Maliki should go.

Events in Ukraine have made it all too clear that NATO's primary function remains deterring war in Europe.

NATO Foreign Ministers agreed on plans to develop a robust Alliance Readiness Action Plan for the Alliance’s Summit in Wales this September and endorsed a package of support measure to strengthen Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.

NATO’s support to Ukraine and the implications of Russia’s actions, the future of Afghanistan and preparations for the NATO Summit in Wales top the agenda of a two-day meeting of the Alliance’s 28 foreign ministers.

In the Flanders town of Ypres this week, EU leaders are to meet for what might prove to be a pivotal moment in Britain's relationship with Europe.

Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Chatham House - London, United Kingdom.

Europe desperately needs fresh leaders willing to accept that the Project has overreached and must step back, and that the goal of ever-closer union must be abandoned, re-establishing the primacy of the sovereign democracies.

US president makes pledges to Ukraine and eastern European NATO members as G7 group of wealthy nations issue warning to Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Barack Obama calls on Congress to back $1bn initiative during trip to Poland as Philip Hammond, the UK defence secretary, warns Nato "we owe our freedom to our willingness to invest in defence"