Prodi affirms Italy's focus on EU integration
Italian premier Romano Prodi made his first European tour this week, sending his partners what he hopes would be considered a reassuring message – that the Silvio Berlusconi era is over.
He stopped in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, saying he was intent on fostering EU integration, cleaning up Italy’s shaky finances and ending the kind of back-slapping personal diplomacy favoured by his flamboyant predecessor.
