06/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - Giacomo Santini, Forza Italia representative, is surprised that " the ironic meaning of my proposal to ask Prodi to step down escaped people" and be replaced by an interim president (Commissioner Monti: see EUROPE of yesterday, p.7). What is serious however, Mr Santi said, is the request for Romano Prodi to step down, but for him to be replaced by Mario Monti is "a purely virtual hypothesis which is merely an attempt to grotesquely underline the position in which...