SATURDAY,  1 JUNE

Graham Watson will be in Rome to address a conference of the Italian Democrats who are now the main party of opposition to Mr Berlusconi’s government.  He will speak about the concerns of many Europeans over dominant ownership of the media.

MONDAY,  3 JUNE

Graham Watson will be hosting a dinner for the ambassadors of 12 countries who have applied to join the EU.  These are the Central and Eastern European countries of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, and two Mediterranean countries, Malta and Cyprus.

TUESDAY,  4 JUNE

In Brussels, Graham Watson will be meeting Migyur Dorjee, deputy envoy of the Dalai Lama.

Graham will be travelling to Copenhagen for a series of meetings with the Danish government.  Denmark, which has a Liberal-led government, will take over presidency of the European Union on 1st July.

WEDNESDAY,  5 JUNE

In Brussels, Graham Watson will be speaking about European defence at a cross-party pressure group meeting.  Graham will be discussing the relative roles of NATO and the EU’s Common Defence Policy.

THURSDAY,  6 JUNE

Graham Watson will be having a breakfast meeting with Nigel Sheinwald, the UK ambassador to the EU.

Graham will host a reception for the launch by Will Hutton of his new book, The World We’re In.  In his book, Hutton argues that the US model of capitalism has been oversold and the European model undersold.  The author is a former editor in chief of The Observer and is a governor of the London School of Economics.

In the evening, Graham will be hosting a dinner for members of the Convention which is looking at ways of reforming and restructuring the European Union prior to enlargement.

FRIDAY,  7 JUNE

Graham Watson will be returning to the UK where he will be dealing with a large amount of casework on behalf of his constituents.