13/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - During the seminar organised by the security/defence sub-committee of the European Parliament on 11 February on the implications of the Lisbon Treaty on ESDP (EUROPE 9600), the UK Conservative MEP Geoffrey Van Orden criticised the refusal of the British government to hold a referendum on the new Treaty of the EU. Whilst Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that the new treaty no longer bears any relation to the former draft European constitution (and claims that it...