On 3 October 2000, in Strasbourg, in the run-up to the Biarritz European Council on 13 and 14 October, Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, argues in the European Parliament in favour of the Community method, underlining the importance of the summit in preparing for the forthcoming enlargement of the European Union and for the reform of the Community institutions initiated at the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC).