Mario monti

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.

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that...

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...

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.

All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it.

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

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

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.