Mark F. Watts

He is now co-owner and Director of LP Brussels, an integrated communications consultancy inspired by the legend of King Arthur, his castle Camelot, his sword Excaliber and the Knights of the Round Table.

He offers strategic pa and pr advice to leading companies, governments and individuals seeking to understand and influence the EU.

Watts continues to champion EU enlargement and recently advocated a European Mediterranean Union to include countries in the Middle East and North Africa which guarantee democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and the respect for and protection of minorities.

He advocates an In/out EU membership referendum in the UK which he says "will give us pro-Europeans the chance to make the case for Europe and secure the consent of our generation."

Watts organised a commemorative event in the European Parliament on Tuesday 6 December 2011, hosted by Peter Skinner, a senior British MEP, to mark the 70th Anniversary of the raid by the German Abwehr on the Red Orchestra Brussels HQ.

The event included a seminar with Hans Coppi, Jr.an expert on the Red orchestra whose parents were members of the RO, and were executed by the Gestapo, Natalia Narochnitskaya Ph.D., Prof., a doctor of historical science, an expert on international relations around WW1 and WW2, and a prominent public figure in Russia, Rabbi Avil Tawil, Director of the European Jewish Community Centre in Brussels, and Lital Levin, an Israeli journalist and relative of Leopold Trepper.