Airstrip One

Decommissioning Brussels - 12th December 2002, 22.17

It appears that Romano Prodi published his constitutional draft without consulting his colleagues or checking that his Pandora's box matched the official submission to the Convention. His model of a centralised Commission governing a state is not even supported by his fellow Commissioners. It is now less likely to provide a competitive model to the intergovernmental model favoured by the 'Big Five' - France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain.