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FIONA HILL:
You’ll see from today’s panel that we’re coyly beginning with the idea of the beginning of Europe with the Lisbon Treaty, and ending with what we hope clearly is not the end of Europe or the economic crisis, but we hope to be provocative by getting people to think about these issues within the questions in the middle the features of European enlargement and what to do with an incorporated Europe, the neighborhoods, which, of course, includes a large number of countries that are to have a prospect or at least a desire for entry into the European Union or at least, in many cases, the hope of a partnership, a close partnership with Europe moving forward.
So, what we wanted to do with this first panel is really talk about, along with you in the audience, about what the Lisbon Treaty has really meant for the development of Europe and also what the implications are of the Lisbon Treaty for relations with the United States.
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