Pat Cox, the President of the European Movement International, joined the founding board of the EU-Russia Centre an independent information and expertise resource for those interested in modern Russia and the future of EU Russia relations. The other members of the founding board are Paddy Ashdown (also President of the EU-Russia Centre), former UN High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr Guenter Burghardt, former EU ambassador to the United States (2002 – 2005) and Heidi Hautala, a Finnish MP (Green Party) and former MEP until 2003.

The website: http://www.eu-russiacentre.org/