02/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - In his press conference at the EU/Russia Summit in St Petersburg, Silvio Berlusconi confirmed to the press, according to the agency ANSA, that Italy is preparing a proposal on the future institutional architecture of the Union, which it will present to the other five founding countries. This proposal, which is still "private and inter-personal", "is one of those innovative ideas which are not widely acceptable at the start, but which end up gaining ground", like the one I launched in 1994 for Russia to become a member of the EU, said the Italian Prime Minister (again, as reported by the agency ANSA).