Former European Commission president Romano Prodi said UK prime minister Tony Blair's words differed from his deeds when it came to his vision on the EU.
Speaking in Bologna, Mr Prodi said that the British prime minister had "always had an Anglo-Saxon idea of Europe in which [Brussel's] institutions had a fundamentally marginal role", according to the Times.
"With [Tony] Blair I see a deep contradiction between what he says and what he does", Mr Prodi added.
The former Europ...
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