Romano Prodi Opens Up

摘要

You beat Silvio Berlusconi by a small margin. Do you feel you have a mandate to lead? Did the President of the U.S. have a mandate to lead? His margin was even smaller. When you win, you win. How are you planning to jump-start the sluggish Italian economy? I already started. Italy, in my opinion, has a group of corporations that are strong but separate from others because of special privileges.... So I've started to break this up. And I shall work step-by-step [to create] more competition. [Also,] tax evasion is at indecent levels. How can you run an economy if all the weight is on the shoulders of 60 percent of the population, and the others don't pay?