Gary Cartwright

Today, in the European Parliament, we got to officially meet the newly elected Ukrainian President Yanukovich for the first time.

WWF (Russia) has reported a large spill from the new Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. This raises major concerns regarding further construction of the pipe through the habitat of Siberian Tiger.

The United States is absolutely right to reject Vladimir Putin's criticism of the proposed missile defence shield. Talk of "maintaining the balance" is misleading: Putin simply does not want his country to lose the one playable card it holds.

Former British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, has criticised British diplomacy in the run-up to the Iraq war, claiming that not only was HMG ineffectual in its dealings in the middle-east, but that its economic demands were “simply ignored” by the US.

The 200th Eurofighter Typhoon produced by the four partner companies of the European consortium, was delivered by EADS Deutschland to the German Luftwaffe this week.

Many of us who are of a certain age have strong personal memories of the cold war, a time when Europe and the world was split along ideological lines, and the fear of war was never far away. I remember my own excitement, working on Phantom jets in the RAF, when aircraft were scrambled to intercept Soviet aircraft over the North Sea - an almost daily occurence during my service in the 1980s.