Prime Minister recieves message from Italian ex-Prime Minister Romano Prodi

Dear Prime Minister

As I end my term as Prime Minister, I wish to convey to you as a friend my sincere best wishes for your country’s future and for its rapid integration into the great European family.

I am convinced that to grow and develop Europe needs all its components and that all our countries have a unique role to play to this end. This is the spirit which guided Italy during my term as Prime Minister: Europe’s enlargement programme, whose extension to Malta is of great satisfaction to Italy, has to happen within a framework that unifies countries behind a common goal and direction.

With these thoughts I send you my greetings. I am sure that the future will present us with other opportunities to strengthen the relationship we built, in the spirit of true friendship between our countries and in our efforts for peace, solidarity and progress in Europe and the world.

Signed

Romano Prodi