Quotes By Mario Monti

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

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 know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.