In the three days I mined give-me-ltc has not been down, and even though it is no longer 3 times as profitable to mine LTC than BTC it is still advantageous. This could of course change any minute.
My problem with LTC is how to move the coins. BTC-e does not trade LTC/EUR and the other sites accepting EUR are either shut down or look too dodgy. Not having a USD account I suppose the best deal is to trade to BTC then BTC to EUR, but it is an additional nuisance.
Actually give-me-ltc was down for a bit in the last three days - they swapped out some servers and the outtage was only a couple of hours though. I've been using give-me-ltc as well, although the Stratum server on give-me-ltc has been flaky and the stale rate on their non-stratum pool has been in the 7-10% range for me. But, in general, Give-Me-LTC is a pretty good pool.
I've been doing LTC -> BTC on BTC-E and then selling the BTC on MtGox. You get the upside that BTC-E sells BTC cheaper than MtGox so you get a nice bump when you sell on MtGox. Since I make ~10% more on the BTC-E to MtGox conversion of BTC, I don't mind the nuisance of the two step... I believe MtGox can do EUR as well.