Ex-EU chief Prodi blasts Blair on Europe
Former EU Commission President Romano Prodi has accused British Premier Tony Blair of being all talk and no action on Europe. "With Blair I see a deep contradiction between what he says and what he does," said Prodi, a former Italian prime minister and the center-left`s likely candidate in next year`s elections. Last month, Blair, who currently holds the rotating EU presidency, made a passionately pro-European speech in the European Parliament, just days after vetoing a deal on the bloc`s budget for 2007-13. According to the London Times, Prodi said Blair espoused a lofty European vision, but in reality had "always had an Anglo- Saxon idea of Europe in which (Brussels) institutions had a fundamentally marginal role."
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