EC4333 students, click here to read an article describing the Lisbon treaty's possible effects on energy security in the EU. From the article: 

A wider and deeper understanding of this state of affairs on the part of the citizens of Europe and their respective member states and the urgent need for the EU to address this mutually volatile state of affairs is long overdue.

Without ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU does not have the necessary institutional and policy competences to do this effectively. This lack of competence threatens both energy security and greater stability in the geopolitical system in terms of stable relations with Russia and, more generally, the stability of the international political system as a whole.

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