European Commission President Romano Prodi . Let us bring down the last remaining Berlin wall. Let us free Cyprus from this burden, free ourselves from this burden. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou . German Chancellor Gerhard Schr der .
People are optimistic problems can be solved.
There's a whole new sense of energy. US Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade David Aaron , commenting on EU-US relations after a visit to Brussels with the new Commission in place. These will be very hard, very long WTO talks, with no doubt a very strong confrontation with the United States. But the EU will be coherent and therefore quite resilient. French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany .