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

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

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

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.

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

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

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 deal never happened either.