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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8067

11 October 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/commission/italy
Berlusconi hopes that next IGC will be over by end-2003, under Italian Presidency, and denies having spoken of "superiority" of Western civilisation over Islam

Brussels, 10/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a press conference at the end of a visit to the European Commission on Wednesday that "we shall have to accelerate the process of re-organising European institutions", and hoped that the Laeken Summit "will kick-start the Convention, which will have a year" to work on it, and that the institutional reforms would then be completed under the Italian Presidency, in the second half of 2003. That way, Europe will...

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