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Treaty of Lisbon (No. 5)

I agree with the Foreign Secretary that when western European countries genuinely agree with each other on some matter of vital foreign interest, it is highly desirable and beneficial that they should work together. However, will not the Foreign Secretary agree, on reflection, that his statement yesterday that the cobbled-together EU statement on Kosovo showed ““clear political leadership”” by the European Union was absurd? The issue of Kosovo showed the deepest division on a common foreign policy issue since the divisions on Iraq. The Foreign Secretary does no service to the genuine desire for European co-operation when he describes a failure to achieve European agreement as if it were a success.