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Romano Prodi served as prime minister of Italy (1996 to 1998; 2006 to 2008) and the 10th president of the European Commission (EC) (1999 to 2004). During his time as prime minister, he reformed the government's employment and pension policies and significantly decreased the budget deficit, allowing Italy to join the European Monetary Union. What were some of your main initiatives during your terms as prime minister?

An interview with Romano Prodi, the former prime minister of Italy and the former president of the European Commission is presented. Currently, he is an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Brown University.

L’euro est conçu à la fin des années 1980 pour constituer l’un des trois pôles de l’ordre monétaire international. L’impossibilité d’équilibrer les comptes publics des États membres va le conduire à la grave crise de 2012. La politique de quantitative easing de la Banque centrale européenne sauvera la monnaie unique, y compris pendant la pandémie de Covid-19. Aujourd’hui, l’accumulation des déficits publics pose à nouveau la question de sa viabilité de long terme. The euro was created at the end of the 1980s as one of the three hubs of the international monetary order, but the impossibility of balancing the public accounts of member states later resulted in the eurozone crisis of 2012. The European Central Bank’s quantitative easing policy has saved the single currency, including during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the accumulation of national debts now reopens the question of the euro’s long-term viability.

EXTENDING SAFETY BEYOND THE EU FRONTIERS, ESPECIALLY IN ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY, IS ONEOF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S TOP PRIORITIES. IN THIS RESPECT, ART. 8 FROM THE EUROPEANUNION TREATY STIPULATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVILEGED RELATIONS WITH THENEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES.IN THE SAID NORMATIVE CONTEXT, EU’S ACTIONS ARE DIRECTEDTOWARDS SEVERAL DIMENSIONS: A PRIVILEGED POLITICAL DIALOGUE, A GROWTH IN THEECONOMIC CO-OPERATION, AS WELL AS FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AND THE REGULATION OF PERSONS’MIGRATION. THE LAST DIMENSION, ABOUT THE PERSONS’ MOBILITY, IS VERY MUCH INFLUENCEDBY OTHER FACTORS, SUCH AS THE DEGREE OF THE INDIVIDUAL’S ECONOMICAL-FINANCIALSTABILITY, AS WELL AS THE PRESUMABLE MIGRANTS’ HOME COUNTRY DEMOCRACY STAGE. QUESTIONS RELATED TO PERSONS’ MOBILITY FROM EAST TO THE EU ARE STUDIED IN THISARTICLE WITH A VIEW TO REVEAL THE EUROPEAN REGULATIONS IMPACT ON MIGRATION WITHINTHE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (ENP) IN EAST. TAKING INTOCONSIDERATION THE INSTRUMENTS CONCEIVED FOR REGULATING MIGRATION FROM THE EASTTOWARDS THE EU, THE STUDY REVEALS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DIALOGUE AND COOPERATIONOF THE DECISION MAKERS INVOLVED IN FIGHTING CLANDESTINE MIGRATION IN THIS SPACE.

Three studies show that people tend to vote for politicians (i.e., either Romano Prodi or Silvio Berlusconi in Italy or George W. Bush or John Kerry in the United States) whose traits they rate as being most similar to their own. People perceived higher similarity between themselves and political figures with respect to traits that were most distinctive of each platform and their respective leaders. These findings, while corroborating the similarity-attraction relationship, further attest to the role that personal characteristics of both voters and candidates play in orienting political preference.

This chapter describes the main events regarding the election of the president of the Republic and the legacy of Napolitano's presidency. The general elections of February 2013 resulted in political deadlock, with no party being able to form a government. In this context, the re-election of Napolitano was the key to finding a way to form a new government based on a \"grand coalition\" of opposing parties. This is the main reason why the presidential election stands out in importance in Italian politics in 2013. In his role as president, Napolitano focused on the necessity to achieve constitutional and political reforms through a widespread and solid agreement among disparate political forces, even if it meant breaking ideological taboos and overcoming vast political differences. This central achievement of Napolitano's new presidency adds to the legacy created in his preceding one.