Brussels, 05/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - The French Presidency will have the job of ensuring continuity in the functioning of the EU ahead of the introduction of the new Lisbon Treaty on 1 January 2009, explained France's Permanent Representative to the EU, Pierre Sellal, on 29 January 2008 in an address to French parliamentarians on the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. Several measures will have to be taken independently of ratification, the most symbolic of which will be to...