Drafted and signed. It is quite in vogue to criticise the inefficiency of the EU institutions faced with the revolutions unfolding in the Arab world. This is not a criticism I share. It is, however, true that the effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the way in which the EU functions at an institutional level, have gone beyond the intentions and expectations of the European Commission. A reduction in its role and scope of initiative has been overtly denounced by Jacques Delors. For me, the key...