Lettera di Romano Prodi su Economist del 22 ottobre 2009

President, pygmy or poodle?

SIR – In saying that “the European project has spent too many of its first 50 years looking inwards”, your leader on the European Union after the Irish referendum forgets the launching of the euro and the free circulation of European citizens through national borders brought about by the Schengen agreement (“Wake up Europe!”, October 10th).

Maybe this slip has something to do with Britain—the country where the next and first permanent president of the European Council could come from—shunning the single currency and refusing to join the Schengen area?

Romano Prodi
Former president of the European Commission
Bologna, Italy