Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

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.

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

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.