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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...
Parliament resumes formally next week in Strasbourg, which means that frantic struggles are taking place behind the scenes this week to secure the jobs which bring the bigger offices and other fringe benefits of status...
There are five weeks between the European elections and the constitutive session of the European Parliament. Normally the political parties in the European Parliament allow a clear fortnight after the election before meeting to prepare for the opening of Parliament...
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In this weeks video I talk about the European Summit, and their actions on global warming, regulation of the financial market, and the Iranian elections. In the EU itself José Manuel Barroso has now been appointed as President of the Commission, and is now awaiting approval from the Parliament.
Every week, as well as re...cording my video blog, I write a blog reporting back on my weeks work as Lib Dem MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar. Both the video and written blog are available on my website; www.grahamwatsonmep.org.uk, as well as here on Facebook, in the notes section of my page.
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Every week, as well as re...cording my video blog, I write a blog reporting back on my weeks work as Lib Dem MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar. Both the video and written blog are available on my website; www.grahamwatsonmep.org.uk, as well as here on Facebook, in the notes section of my page.
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