The president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, denies that the French institutional system, with a president in charge of external relations and the Commission's head as a prime minister is a suitable model for the European Union.
Speaking in Brussels after a meeting with the French prime minister Jean Pierre Raffarin, Mr Prodi clearly stated that the European Union’s system could not accommodate the contention of the relation between a president and a prime minister.
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