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.
Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
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.