29/01/2004 (AGENCE EUROPE) - It has been stated in a press release that Romano Prodi is to receive an award from the European Rabbi Centre in Vienna on 2 February in recognition of the efforts of his Commission in promoting cultural dialogue and minority rights, in particular for the Jewish community. Prodi will attend the inauguration of the first European Academy for Jewish teachers in Vienna since the end of the Second World War. (The former academy was burnt in 1939 on Kristallnacht).