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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.

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

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 plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

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

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.

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

The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.

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.

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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