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.

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

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

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.

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