16/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published by the Financial Times on 15 March, Romano Prodi said that the next President of the European Commission should ideally be a former Prime Minister, especially as his or her duties will involve facing down increasingly self-confident large Member States. He noted that he had spent the previous four years in Brussels "swimming against the tide", faced with Member States which have become more critical of European integration, such as...