Mario Monti Quotes
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.
I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
