text: EU bid to catch US economy 'a big failure': Prodi (AFP) AFP - Europe's efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been  quot;a big failure, quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, told the Financial Times in an interview.
inputs: EU bid to catch US economy 'a big failure': Prodi (AFP) AFP - Europe's efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been  quot;a big failure, quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, told the Financial Times in an interview.