Europe loses its Lisbon hiding place

Commentary feature. Author writes 'Europe cannot escape the existential choice of the coming decade. Does it want to embrace the irrelevance that will come from an effort to hold on to what it has – oblivious all the while to the reality that nations have to change to stay the same? Or does it want to exercise the leadership necessary to protect and project the open, rules-based system on which its prosperity and security depend? With or without Lisbon, that is the choice'.

ESO: Background information: 'Make or break' week for Lisbon Treaty http://www.europeansources.info/record/make-or-break-week-for-lisbon-treaty/

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