Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
The Italian economy has been held back for decades.
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
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.