The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.
Romano ProdiWe are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
Romano ProdiI am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.
Romano ProdiAre we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.
Romano Prodi