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. ↗

— Mario Monti

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

— Mario Monti

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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. ↗

— Mario Monti

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Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline. ↗

— Mario Monti

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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. ↗

— Mario Monti

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I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership. ↗

— Mario Monti

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

— Mario Monti

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I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case. ↗

— Mario Monti

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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. ↗

— Mario Monti

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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. ↗

— Mario Monti

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