FORMER Italian prime minister Romano Prodi has spoken of his dismay at the state of the European Union.
"The Europe I dreamed of is dead. But I hope the crisis will wake us up. Now we can only do one thing: pray.”
Mr Prodi said did not have great hopes about the future of the European Union which he said was increasingly divided by national and political interests.
And he said Brexit had accelerated the process of detachment from Brussels.
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He told Quotidiano: “I was disappointed by Brexit but not surprised. The new thing is the American encouragement to Brexit.
“It is an unprecedented and inappropriate interference in my opinion. From a political point of view the fact that the future US President supports Brexit says a lot.”
On the future of the EU, Mr Prodi called for "a single strategy".
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He said: ”The real problem is that, once again, there will not be a common policy.
“We would need a real leader who would put himself in other people’s shoes.
"Whoever leads a political coalition and a group of countries must consider the interests of all the members. I am talking about Angela Merkel."
