Treaty of Lisbon (No. 5)

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman, who studies these questions carefully, should destroy his own argument in seeking to make it. Mr. Solana's visit was on the back of the agreement of the 27 to the statement made at the European General Affairs and External Relations Council on Monday, and was all the better for that. Whatever one's view of the timing of recognition, the idea that the European Union should not be a friend of Kosovo strikes me as very odd indeed.