Warnings from Commissioners

Romano Prodi spoke for the first time on British soil earlier this week. He addressed the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Brimingham.

In his speech he tried not to refer to the travails of the euro until he was questioned. Instead he called on Britain to take “its rightful place” as a leader in the Europe or be left behind as the EU forged ahead. He dismissed the idea that he wanted to see a European superstate or that he wanted to centralize power i...