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ALDE leader opposes bid by Diana Wallis but Wallis says she will continue ‘until the end'. How Deva, Schulz and Wallis voted in the past two years Is Diana Wallis...

British MEP has been elected president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party. Graham Watson, sometime leader of the liberal group (ALDE) in the European...

Graham Watson, a liberal MEP from the UK, has been elected president of the party of European Liberal Democrats. 

UK leads calls to keep national derogation but Commission concerned about single market. The British freight transport industry has warned that European Commission plans to...

A knighthood for Liberal MEP. British Liberal MEP Graham Watson is no longer the leader of the ALDE group in the European Parliament, but he has still found a way to rise in...

The EU's partnership with Russia must rest on those areas where values are shared and applied. On 2 December, European Voice published an opinion piece on EU-Russia...

Representing the winners. Events conspired to prevent many of the winners from receiving their awards in person at the gala dinner. Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the...

A new book from the former leader of the pack. Graham Watson, a British MEP, has written a book about his time as leader of the ALDE group, part memoir, part political...

Keeping contact with Turkish Cypriots to a minimum. Libor Roucek, a Czech centre-left MEP, is having a hard time as co-ordinator of the European Parliament's grandly named...

Former ALDE leader lands EU-India role. Apologies to Graham Watson , the former leader of the liberal (ALDE) group. Entre Nous erred last week in suggesting that he was...

Former ALDE leader fades from public view. Graham Watson, former leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, has faded from public view since his decision...

José Manuel Barroso must start to show imagination and courage, if he is to live up to the challenges of a second term. Suggestions that José Manuel Barroso...

Why I did not stand for the post of president of the European Parliament. You wrote last week that “attempts to stage a genuine contest for the post of president of the...

Liberal withdraws from race for Parliament's presidency, leaving former Polish prime minister with just one rival. Attempts to stage a genuine contest for the post of...

By agreeing on its next president in secrecy, the Parliament is working against its own principles of more transparency. The European Parliament appears to have problems...

UK Liberal MEP Graham Watson says he is withdrawing his candidacy 'in support of a three-party agreement to save the EU'. Graham Watson has announced that he is pulling out...

Former leader of Liberal group denies claim made by Jerzy Buzek. The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) claimed today (7 July) that Graham Watson, who until last...

Former Belgian prime minister elected unopposed. Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and elected to the European Parliament in June as head of the list of the...

Socialists, Liberals and Greens ready to put off a vote until after the summer. The three political groups in the European Parliament that are opposed to giving José...

But some of the European Parliament's group leaders are seeking to delay the re-appointment of José Manuel Barroso until the autumn. The leaders of the centre-left...