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Wed 07 Jul 2009Lisbon Yes will make EU fit for global challenges
OPINION:If we want the European Union to respond effectively to international financial, energy and climate change crises we must empower it to do so
AS A PUBLIC representative who is neither starry-eyed about the Lisbon Treaty, nor focused exclusively on its flaws, I would like to argue that – on balance – it is worth supporting. Lisbon represents a considerable improvement on the Nice Treaty. It gives more power to the directly-elected European Parliament. It empowers national parliaments to scrutinise and, if necessary, to block draft EU legislation.
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