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

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

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

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

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.

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

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