Prodi eschews Berlusconi’s US-leaning foreign policy - by Ljubomir Milasin
ITALIAN Prime Minister Romano Prodi made a clean break with Berlusconi-era foreign policy during the recent Group of Eight (G-8) summit in St Petersburg, signalling an end to the cosy relationship his predecessor forged with Washington. “We’ve seen an important change. Italy and Romano Prodi are now perceived as further from the American and British positions and I think that’s an important change,” noted Franco Pavoncello, a political scientist at John Cabot University in Rome.
One of the first foreign policy shifts of his successor was to pledge the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq, deployed by Berlusconi despite widespread public protests in 2003. Prodi appears to be putting into practice his pre-election pledge to put the European Union (EU) and the UN at the centre of his decisions.
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