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"The formal involvement of national Parliaments in EU political choices is one of the main keys to the success of the Lisbon Treaty," writes French MEP Alain Lamassoure of the centre-right European People's Party in an October editorial, proposing a number of measures for implementation in early 2010.

It will be "impossible" to develop a viable energy partnership between the EU and Central Asia unless the Union is able to speak with one voice about the Nabucco pipeline and the way it wants to engage with the region's energy suppliers, according to Luba Azarch of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).

Although the imminent completion of the Lisbon Treaty ratification process should allow the EU to emerge from its "period of introspection", "we should be under no illusions" as the "long and painful" ratification experience revealed problems with the legitimacy of EU integration and the direction the Union is taking, write Loukas Tsoukalis, Olaf Cramme and Roger Liddle in an October paper for the Policy Network.

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