Editing Romano Prodi (section)

===Policies===
Prodi's economic programme consisted in continuing the past governments' work of restoration of the country's economic health, in order to pursue the then seemingly unreachable goal of leading the country within the strict [[European Monetary System]] parameters in order to allow the country to join the [[Euro]] currency. He succeeded in this in little more than six months.

During his first premiership, Prodi faced the [[1997 Albanian civil unrest]]; his government proposed the so-called [[Operation Alba]] ("Sunrise"), a multinational peacekeeping force sent to [[Albania]] in 1997 and led by [[Italy]]. It was intended to help the Albanian government restore law and order in their troubled country after the [[1997 rebellion in Albania]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.un.int/slovenia/pk-alba.html |title=Operation Alba |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-date=21 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021051920/http://www.un.int/slovenia/pk-alba.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 980507-D-2987S-047.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Prodi with [[United States Secretary of Defence]] [[William Cohen]]]]
Following the degenerating loss of administrative control by the Government in the first days of March 1997, culminating in the desertion of most Police and many Republican Guard and Army units, leaving their armouries open to the inevitable looting which soon followed, several Nations autonomously helped evacuate their Nationals in [[Operation Silver Wake]] and [[Operation Libelle]].

The [[UN Security Council]] therefore agreed the [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1101]] as a stop-gap operation to manage this and buy time, laying the foundations for a planned reconstruction, which after six weeks of debate fell to the [[Western European Union]], creating the Multinational Albanian Police Element around a command structure of Italian [[Carabinieri]], which actually undertook the work of Judicial and Police reconstruction, extending into the elimination of the economic causes of the crisis.

The Italian [[3rd Army Corps (Italy)|3rd Army Corps]] assumed responsibility for the stop-gap mission as Operation Alba, the first multinational Italian-led Mission since World War II. Eleven contributing European Nations<ref>{{cite book|last= Colonel Marchio|first= Riccardo|url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA378201|title= "Operation Alba": A European Approach to Peace Support Operations in the Balkans|year= 2000 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130723175151/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA378201| url-status= dead| archive-date= 23 July 2013|page= iii}} "This operation, in which 11 European countries took part"</ref> brought humanitarian aid to a country that was in a dramatic economic and political situation.<ref>NATO, [http://www.nato.int/nrdc-it/about/emblem.htm NRDC-IT Emblem], accessed November 2011</ref> In 1997, Prodi declared that "the problem of the safety of the country seems to be no longer one of external safety, but an internal one: the safety of [[citizen]]s in their everyday life".<ref>{{Cite book|title= Crime and Security | author1=  Benjamin Goold |publisher= Taylor & Francis |year=2017 |isbn= 9781351570732 | pages=399}}</ref>