In his speech before the European Parliament, on 3 October, European Commission President Romano Prodi strongly defended the "Community method" for managing Europe, demonstrating the weaknesses, dangers and undemocratic nature of the purely intergovernmental method and placing special emphasis on the central role of the Commission.
This text was summarized in our bulletin of 4 October and commented upon in our "A Look Behind the News" section of 12 October. We now publish the text in full,...