Prodi bid for Euro-election unity

European Commission President Romano Prodi has urged Italian opposition parties to run united at the forthcoming European elections, scheduled to take place in the spring of 2004. The initiative was criticised by others in the EU who felt that the European Commission President should not interfere in Italian internal politics.

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