Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Italian politics: a tale of disenchantment | February 14, 2008 |
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Italy is a very complicated country and is, despite its physical beauty and cultural treasure, more an anachronism than an icon in the European Union. Its people are both... | |
| 2. Those Swedes are model-building again | September 21, 2006 |
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The Swedish election result ought to put fresh heart into economic reformers around Europe struggling to overcome the defences erected by conservatives and special interests.... | |
| 3. European Voice ten years ago | April 27, 2006 |
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"Italians have voted for calm," said Romano Prodi, leader of the 'Olive Tree' centre-left coalition which won last Sunday's general election in Italy. He may well have added... | |
| 4. Italy's sick body needs sounder minder | April 6, 2006 |
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In some countries, at some times, elections are the triumph of hope over experience. The hope is that the promises of change, renewal and progress towards shared goals will... | |
| 5. ‘Donkey' Prodi's term of triumph and turmoil | October 28, 2004 |
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BACK in July 1999, Romano Prodi promised to behave like a donkey during his tenure as European Commission president, recalling the praise heaped by Leonardo da Vinci on an... | |
| 6. Structural flaws will keep the Commission weak | April 22, 2004 |
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THE European Commission is showing, with each passing day, that it is the sick man of Europe.After four-and-a-half years of little direction, which gave the impression that... | |
| 7. Pinning down profile of perfect post-Prodi president | March 4, 2004 |
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AS JEAN-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, travelled across Europe this week, he had to answer, in each place he visited, the question of whether he is a candidate... | |
| 8. Prodi backs Berlusconi on performance of presidency | December 18, 2003 |
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ITALIAN premier Silvio Berlusconi received ringing endorsement of his presidency of the EU from an unexpected quarter this week – his old political foe Romano Prodi. The... | |
| 9. Prodi: 'decide now' | December 11, 2003 |
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ROMANO Prodi, the European Commission president, has urged the EU's heads of state and government to avoid the final negotiations on the Union's historic constitution ending... | |
| 10. Prodi to face probe over contracts for niece's firm | November 13, 2003 |
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MEMBERS of the European Parliament's financial watchdog have called on Romano Prodi to explain if any favouritism has been shown in the awarding of contracts for EU foreign... | |
| 11. Facts on Eurostat | October 16, 2003 |
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I was most interested by John Wyles' very subtle analysis in his Europa article ‘The culpability of commissioners: what has changed Prodi's mind?' (European Voice, 2-8... | |
| 12. Prodi ‘naïve' over Eurostat | October 9, 2003 |
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Romano Prodi's hand-wringing speech to the European Parliament on 25 September concerning the latest Eurostat fraud fiasco makes for embarrasing reading. The conclusion... | |
| 13. Brickbats and bouquets for sweaty-lipped Romano and Tony | October 2, 2003 |
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THE reviews are in for two sweaty-upper-lip performances by embattled European leaders, and they're decidedly not mixed. First there was Romano Prodi's mea-not-so-culpa... | |
| 14. Second thoughts as Silvio steps up | July 3, 2003 |
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The biggest battle fought within the Convention on the future of the Europe centred on whether to keep, or ditch, the rotating EU presidency. Small and soon-to-be-member... | |
| 15. Berlusconi gets rap from Monti over Russian ‘accession' | June 12, 2003 |
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COMPETITION Commissioner Mario Monti has handed Italian compatriot Silvio Berlusconi a rap for giving Russia false hopes that it might one day join the EU. The Italian... | |
| 16. Prodi and Berlusconi rift bad sign for presidency | May 8, 2003 |
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THIS week's war of words between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi, the European Commission president, hardly bodes well for the crucial upcoming... | |
| 17. Prodi goes searching for Europe's soul | February 6, 2003 |
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ROMANO Prodi, the president of the European Commission, has launched three high-powered working groups to examine the EU's core values in a bid to demonstrate that the Union... | |
| 18. Convention faces 'daunting' challenge to find compromise | June 27, 2002 |
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SENIOR figures on the future of Europe Convention admit that they face a "daunting challenge" to draw together the multitude of proposals they have received on reforming the... | |
| 19. EUROPA: Accountability is the key to the EU - whoever ends up being president | June 13, 2002 |
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ALONG with deciding to drop the atomic bomb, former US President Harry Truman is best remembered for the sign on his desk promising that 'The buck stops here'. Not everybody... | |
| 20. Prodi's landmark speech ... in case you missed it | November 15, 2001 |
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Luck has rarely been on Romano Prodi's side since he was appointed European Commission chief in 1999. This week it seemed to desert him completely. Prodi's advisers went to... | |
