ROME, Dec 28 (Hina) - Italian Prime Minister and former European Commission President Romano Prodi said at this year's closing news conference on Thursday that the German EU presidency should enable activities leading to the further
EU enlargement and stressed that enlargement to other countries, including Croatia, should continue, Agence France Presse reported.
ROME, Dec 28 (Hina) - Italian Prime Minister and former European
Commission President Romano Prodi said at this year's closing news conference
on Thursday that the German EU presidency should enable activities leading to
the further EU enlargement and stressed that enlargement to other countries,
including Croatia, should continue, Agence France Presse reported.
The process of enlargement must continue with Croatia, and then with Macedonia,
Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania. That process can last 20 years, but we
must offer a political prospect, otherwise we will go back to the tragedies of
the past, the Italian PM said.
I am confident, as other European leaders, that enlargement to the
Balkans is necessary. We won't solve the problem of the former Yugoslavia if we
don't give those countries a prospect of membership, Prodi said.
He also commented on negotiations about the European constitution,
saying that they could not progress before presidential elections in France,
scheduled for spring next year.