Timely initiative. The European Parliament has taken the right step: it has become firmly involved in the on-going preparations for the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, and has appointed a rapporteur of some stature in Jean-Luc Dehaene.
The complexity of the issue is well known. The number of questions, mainly institutional, to which answers have to be found so that the new treaty can operate efficiently from the moment it comes into effect, is huge, and these questions sometimes refer...