Mario Monti famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Unusual #Initiative
The Italian economy has been held back for decades.
-- Mario Monti

#Italian #Economy
I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.
-- Mario Monti

#Italian #Government #Helping
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
-- Mario Monti

#Thinking #Spheres #Centralization
If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.
-- Mario Monti

#Spain #Scrutiny
I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.
-- Mario Monti

#Believe #People #Culture
It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.
-- Mario Monti

#Country #Running #Guy
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
-- Mario Monti

#Mean #Europe #Prejudice
I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.
-- Mario Monti

#Party #Contamination
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
-- Mario Monti

#Country #Discipline #Growth
Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.
-- Mario Monti

#Needs #Financial #Aids
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
-- Mario Monti

#Two #Government #Priorities
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
-- Mario Monti

#Breakup #Europe #Government
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
-- Mario Monti

#Government #Political #Trying
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
-- Mario Monti

#Quality #Certain #Admire
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
-- Mario Monti

#Europe #Foundation #Projects
Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
-- Mario Monti

#Reform #Needed
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
-- Mario Monti

#Government #Aspiration
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
-- Mario Monti

#Greek #Ready #Euro
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.
-- Mario Monti

#Color #Trying #Watches
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.
-- Mario Monti

#Government #Vote #Individual
I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.
-- Mario Monti

#Believe #Europe #I Believe
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.
-- Mario Monti

#Europe #Profound #Justice
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.
-- Mario Monti

#Europe #Government #Way
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.
-- Mario Monti

#Years #Two #Mergers

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