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EU is a soft power, even with Lisbon

By Anand Menon
25.09.2008 / 00:00 CET
The Lisbon treaty would not have given the EU the teeth to tackle either the Georgia crisis or the global financial turmoil.

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NOT ALL SMILES José Manuel Barroso (left), the president of the European Commission, Nicolas Sarkozy (centre-left) the president of France, Dmitry Medvedev (centre-right), the president of Russia, and Sergei Lavrov (right), the Russian foreign minister. REUTERS
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