We can all recall the major milestones and some of the lesser ones in our military history: Ypres, Vimy, the Somme, Dieppe, Ortona, the liberation of the Netherlands, the Korean War, the Suez crisis, Cyprus, the Golan Heights, peacekeeping throughout the Cold War, the first Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and, more recently, Libya, to name but a few.

In your speeches you have mentioned nutrition on a number of occasions and in fact canned fish tick all of the boxes: they are low in value, high in protein, with no necessity for refrigerated transport or for cold storage facilities when they arrive, and, of course, they have a long shelf life.

Even in the few months that have passed since this year began, according to Mr Egeland, the UN Vice-Secretary-General with responsibility for Darfur, over 200 000 people have been driven from their homes and over 96 villages have been burned to the ground – and all this over a year since international action was taken with the intention of putting a stop to this sort of thing. This goes to show how incredibly feeble the international community is where Darfur is concerned, and the fact that the UN’s Vice-Secretary-General was prevente ...[+++]d from travelling into the crisis zone in the first place shows that the Khartoum regime is quite blatantly defying and cold-shouldering the international community and thereby making of it a laughing stock.

49. Welcomes the recommendations submitted to the Council by Secretary-General/High Representative Javier Solana for an overall EU strategy in the field of foreign and security policy, underlining the need for a more muscular CFSP to deal with weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and the conflicts of the post-cold-war era, and to exert influence to prevent conflict or take ‘pre-emptive engagement’ through ‘effective’ multilateral institutions, to spend more on defence, to reduce the duplication of military assets and to increase civilian planning during and after crises, thereby creating EU ‘hard power’ tools to back up its soft power ones; requests that the EP be involved in the formulation and implementation ...[+++] of the EU Security Strategy;

At the time of the Cold War, the nuclear peril deterred the two major powers from direct conflict. They came into conflict through their allies in the third world, in Afghanistan with Russian intervention and in Angola, with Cuban intervention.

Anticipated investments amount to some 73.4 million ECU, breaking down as follows: - processing of tunny, sardine, anchovy and clams: 33.2 million ECU - cold storage and freezing facilities: 26.8 million ECU - wholesale and auction centres and purification units: 13.4 million ECU Figures and breakdown are indicative only.