Out with a little less fanfare than usual this week have been various categories in the Total Politics Blogger League Tables, including the top Liberal Democrat blogs: 1 Lib Dem Voice 2 Caron’s Musings 3 Liberal England 4 Andrew Reeves’ Running Blog 5 Stephen’s Liberal Journal 6 Mark Pack =7 Liberal Vision =7 A Scottish

The South West's only Liberal Democrat MEP, Graham Watson, seems to be on a quest for maximum unpopularity. And on current form he might just end up taking the whole Lib Dem campaign for the European Parliament elections down with him. During the Prime Minister's visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week - on the first leg of his pre-G20 'world tour' - Watson use...

Good to see a Liberal Democrat MEP taking up this cause in a press release: Liberal Democrat London MEP Sarah Ludford has called for the blocking of plans by European Parliament bosses known as the ‘bureau’ to spend £26 million (€30 million) on improving MEP offices in the Parliament’s Strasbourg building. The Parliament is currently obliged

European Voice reports: Liberal Democrat MEP announces that she is to quit just days after failing in bid to become president of the European Parliament. Diana Wallis, a British Liberal MEP who this week failed in her bid to become president of the European Parliament, today announced that she is to stand down as an

Lib Dem blogger Jonathan Fryer has the details (with apologies for LDV’s belatedness): The ALDE (Liberal) Group in the new European Parliament has chosen the Flemish Liberal and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, to be its new leader. He takes over from the British (South West England) Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who has

The Press Association reports: A British MEP has withdrawn from the race to become the next president of the European Parliament “to save the European Union”. Liberal Democrat Graham Watson said he is joining a cross-party cabal which will see the job carved up between the Parliament’s mainstream centre-right and centre-left parties for the next five

In an interview with EurActiv France, French Socialist MEP Pervenche Berès highlighted the importance of including a social dimension in the battle to solve Europe's economic problems, and questioned the decision to award the European Parliament's important economic committee chair to an English Liberal MEP.

In an interview with EurActiv France, French Socialist MEP Pervenche Berès highlighted the importance of including a social dimension in the battle to solve Europe's economic problems, and questioned the decision to award the European Parliament's important economic committee chair to an English Liberal MEP.

Darren Ennis on MHP reports good news for the UK from the European Parliament: British Liberal Democrat Sharon Bowles is expected to keep her role as chair of the European Parliament’s influential economic and monetary affairs committee, MHP Sources Say. Despite winning cross-party praise for her increasingly high profile role during the economic downturn, Bowles

Following its list of top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers, Total Politics has now also published its overall list of top blogs and bloggers – two lists in which many Liberal Democrats feature. In the top 50 of the blogs list, Lib Dem Voice is in at number 12 (up from 27 last year), Caron