If EU can today midwife Kosova - what need the Lisbon Treaty?

The global super power the USA is pefectly entitled to support and enforce an independent Kosovo, and once the Republican front-runner for the November elections in that country (real elections let it be noted) backed that plan such a course probably became inevitable. Individual member states of the EU are similarly entitled to support such a course having considered their own future relations with Russia and the likely consequences for their own citizens involved in the mechanics. (It is noteworthy here that the onlyEuropean nation that I have so far heard is sending extra troops is Britain, whose battle weary soldiers are already reportedly overstretched from action in Basra and Afghanistan). But surely ahead of ratification of the EU Reform Treaty the EU does not yet really have the powers and authority to so involve itself? If indeed it does then I must question my own daily railings against the iniquitous Lisbon Treaty and its destruction of our Westminster and other Parliaments for that must almost certainly have already effectively come to pass. Has Parliament debated this troop deployment, the foreign relations implications and the EU's whole strategy in the Balkans? It seems certain that Britain's Prime Minister had other problems on his mind over this past weekend, the nationalisation of the failed bank Northern Rock certainly having come about as a result of his own incompetence in formulating a non-functioning regulatory system which throughout his term as Chancellor allowed this bank to operate a clearly flawed and highly dubious business plan, just as his own management of the British economy can now be seen for the con it truly was, as this blog so frequently reported.