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THE LISBON Treaty would make for better regulation of the European Union in these days of economic difficulty, author and commentator Timothy Garton Ash has said.

In a lecture on The Europe We Need, delivered at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin yesterday, he said: “We are launched on big and stormy seas. We need a bigger and better boat, and there are also still some monsters in the deep.”