THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/commission/post nice

In his speech on state of Union in 2001, President Prodi talks of "debate on overhaul, of a constitutional nature" which is already open, and underlines role to be played by parliaments when it is a case of "structuring" this reflection

Strasbourg, 13/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission President, Romano Prodi, in presenting on 13 February to the European Parliament to Commission programme for 2001, kept himself to outlining the main points of this programme and especially raised the debate, which is already open, over the post-Nice process. In his speech entitled "State of the Union 2001", Mr Prodi noted, to start with, that this time the annual debate over the European Commission programme, "finally broaches...