Duff i FT , 30 jan. 2008: "MEPs stress the need for good collaboration between themselves and national parliamentarians in the scrutiny of EU foreign, security and defence policy. Indeed, the Lisbon treaty expressly requires there to be a special interparliamentary conference between European and national foreign affairs and defence committees. On these matters, the House of Commons remains completely silent. The European Parliament also suggests that on the coming into force of the new treaty the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) should be closed down."