GRAHAM Watson the Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West, will be clocking up the mileage next week.

On Tuesday he is set to meet Hamid Karzaii, the president of Afghanistan, and on the following day he will be speaking in the Strasbourg debating chamber on the future of Europe, 60 years after World War Two, as well as chairing a seminar on EU-China relations.

On Thursday he travels to Bulgaria for the congress of the Liberal International.

During the following week he will be campaigning in France for a yes vote in their referendum on the European constitution.