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42 quotes by Mario Monti

Mario Monti, Knight Grand Cross OMRI (born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a government of technocrats in the wake of the Italian debt crisis. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been Rector and...
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The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

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If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe... →

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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

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Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the... →

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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... →

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I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

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

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

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I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance... →

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I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

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So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy... →

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First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to... →

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There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

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