The EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) will meet in Brussels on 11 December. Finland's representative at the meeting will be Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini. The topics on the agenda will include Iraq, the Middle East and the Sahel region. 

Ukraine and Lithuania will continue consultations on the reform of the Armed Forces of our country in accordance with the standards of the North Atlantic Alliance. 

A senior United Nations aid and development official in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) today released $2.2 million to support health, food and livelihood programmes in the Gaza Strip.

US crude was shipped in larger volumes to European and Mediterranean refiners in November, displacing more expensive grades from the Caspian Sea.

Metalworking in Kazan on these days.

The European Investment Bank is to provide a loan of EUR 490 million to support construction of the new children’s hospital in Dublin. 

Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono today announced the successful conclusion of the final discussions on the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

NATO Deputy Secretary General, Rose Gottemoeller, inaugurated the new NATO Liaison Office in Moldova.

Locomotives help to modernize national railway system.