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IEEE Director: EU Lisbon Treaty should take to avoid being second-actor.

Valencia, May 17 .- The head of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE), Miguel Angel Ballesteros, believes that the European Union (EU) "should use the" Lisbon Treaty "not to be an actor in second division and leave the prominence to countries like USA, China, Russia or India. "

Speaking to Reuters before participating in the conference on Security Policy in, ffxiv gil, the EU and the Catholic University of Valencia, where several experts discuss dnse policies and the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, Ballesteros explained that this allows the EU to conduct a "greater integration of security and dnse policies" that becomes "an actor taken into account in any international forum."

In his view, the challenges, "most urgent", cheap darkfall gold, that the EU faces on dnse are the uranium enrichment program of Iran, the Middle East situation, especially in Lebanon, or the problem of weak states as Somalia.

Also, highlighted the situation in the Maghreb, where two Spanish aid workers kidnapped by Al-Qaeda, and relations between the EU and Russia, "where security of energy supply, gods and heroes gold, that should be made to pay special attention."

Ballesteros has also emphasized the need to "develop a culture of European dnse" as in civil society "there is little knowledge of what is at stake."

It has therefore opted to take the debate on issues of European security and dnse to the Spanish society "to take on record the importance it plays in international relations, which ultimately results in the welfare state in the country."

In this respect has clarified that, "to have an important role in international organizations, we must be with all the consequences and you have to put the fire out of the neighbor before it reaches our house."

Finally, the director of the IEEE has been rrred to one of the security tools with which the EU, the European Union Battlegroup, one of which leads in the second half of 2010, Headquarters Land Betera High Availability ( Valencia).

These bodies of the EU rapid response can be deployed in crisis areas around the world to provide humanitarian aid, but since he launched in 2005 "never have come into operation."

To do this, the Battlegropus need approval from holders countries, so that, according to Ballesteros, "would have to tweak the legislation to which nations would be forced to put troops in place, because otherwise they are not useful .