I'm a Lib Dem Member of the European Parliament for South West of England and Gibraltar. Feel free to use my page to keep in touch. I post a weekly video blog and written blog and try to reply to any comments left.
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- Graham's blog Friday 27 November 2009 2009年11月27日 1:00
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Parliament met in Strasbourg this week. Our main debate was about the position to be adopted by the EU at the Copenhagen climate change summit. Obama's commitment to making some emissions cuts has helped; and in a resolution we called on the EU to go even further than previously envisaged......
Graham Watson MEP： has re-designed his website. Have a look and tell me what you think. Don't forget to keep checking back, as it will be kept regularly updated with news from Europe and the South West, videos and opinion polls.
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Thank you for visiting my website. Using the tabs on the left, you will be able to keep track of what I am doing on behalf of my constituents in the European Parliament and in the South West.
Early this week the women members of Parliament and the European Commission were up in arms (or more accurately in neckties, demonstrating in front of the Council of Ministers' HQ) to point out that the best man for the job is often a woman......
Another unusually quiet week in Brussels......
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MEP for SW England and Gibraltar Graham Watson has discovered how UK government bungling has allowed Spain to register Gibraltar's territorial waters as a Spanish Site of Community Importance under EU environmental legislation.
In fifteen years I have rarely known Parliament so quiet. Though the Czech President has now signed the Lisbon Treaty, bringing to an end an eight year battle to reform the EU, MEPs returned from the half-term recess on Monday to find a very thin agenda for Parliament and its committees......
Parliament met in Strasbourg this week for our formal debates and votes. Since we are almost at the end of the Commission's term of office and awaiting the formation of a new Commission there is relatively little legislation to vote on, but there are all kinds of other things to keep us occupied......
This week the European Parliament's political groups met to discuss the agenda for next week's formal debates and votes in Strasbourg. There were also a few committee meetings......
Parliament was in plenary session in Brussels for two days this week, but with very little legislative business......
I did not write last week since the European Parliament was in recess, but I used the opportunity to attend the Lib Dem Party Conference in Brighton, to speak at the opening of a new language learning unit at the University of the West of England and to pay a quick visit to Hong Kong to address the......
Parliament returned to Strasbourg with the main item on our agenda being the approval of Barroso for a second term as Commission President. As I expected, he was approved, even quite comfortably. 718 MEPs were present of a total of 736......
My letter to Barroso last week may have had some impact. On Tuesday the Commission decided to support the move to have bluefin tuna included in Annex 1 of CITES (the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species), which would ban all trade in the fish until stocks have recovered......
I return to writing this newsletter with some trepidation. I started writing upon my election as Leader of the European Union's Liberal Democrat MEPs in 2002 and it benefited hugely from the privileged access to people and information which that position gifted to me......
The formation of the committees in the newly elected European Parliament was completed this week. All committee chairs and vice chairs have now been elected and the meeting timetables set for the rest of this year......
MEPs amassed in Strasbourg on Monday, more than half of them new to Parliament. The place had a 'first day at a new school' atmosphere. Help desks abounded, eager young graduates pushed their CVs hither and thither hoping for jobs as researchers, the new boys (and girls......
