Prodi indicated that the member countries of the EU are carefully examining and reviewing the issue and the EC will make active efforts to promote an early resolution.
Not least among those advances were two 13th-century inventions: ships that could cross oceans, and guns that could shoot the people the sailors met on the other side.
Ideas fuel the engine of history, and in a time when the number of vital and honest ideas are fading, he's pushing at every turn to get more flowing again.
However, Mr Matheson points out that America's health-care system is fragmented and huge-far bigger even than wal-mart-which could limit the firm's ability to force change.
Surveys of WWII infantrymen carried out by U.S. Army Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall found that only 15 to 20 percent had fired their weapons in combat, even when ordered to do so.
Since reunification, hundreds of billions of euros have been pumped into programs to bolster the infrastructure of the former East Germany -- but to what end?