After a quick glance at the speech we can see a positive inspiration of an ex-prime minister of Italy, to a stronger, healthier Europe thorough a better management of scare resources (money) and optimization (review our priorities and focus on our core business).

"To focus on its real priorities... to shed low-priority activities and thus free up resources". Prodi wants to revive the lost faith in the European institutions. Enlargement, progress, lower unemployment. Strengthen Europe's capacity for prosperity and progress.

This "vision" then, is for an all-round project enabling the construction of a Europe capable of upholding its own responsibilities towards future candidates for accession. Enlargement, approached on a basis of such a broad design, adds a number of considerable advantages:

politically, it strengthens the role of democracy in Eastern Europe;

economically, it offers the prospect of a vaster, more competitive market;

from the security viewpoint, it can represent the starting point for a new all-European system of guarantees, thus playing a complementary rol

What Romano Prodi does not say is perhaps even more significant: no more corporatism, no more inflated public spending projects, and no more false promises.

Does the Commission act in democratic way?

The concept of governance is aimed at a common political system of the European Union. Construction of a Community that respects the identity of each of its Member States.

Reformation of European modes of governance is all about improving democracy in Europe.

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