Quotes by Mario Monti

“I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to trigger political intervention. This is out of place in an anti-trust case and has no impact on the Commission.”

“This means at this stage we have some concerns about the proposed merger ... The formal decision of the second stage will be adopted before the end of this week,”

“These are important cases for the development of music services offered online to consumers and there are potentially a number of issues which merit close examination.”

“Yes, online music services should develop rapidly, but with a diversity of service providers.”

“In a music market already characterized by a high degree of consolidation, the danger which has been averted was that by allowing AOL to team up effectively with three of the five music majors, the resulting integrated company could have dominated the online music distribution market and music players.”

“The commission is determined to intervene in cases where measures taken by undertakings jeopardize the proper functioning of the single market, ... Such measures constitute a very serious infringement of European competition rules and must be dealt with severely.”

“Its important to have constant application and legal certainty.”

“all options are open.”

“We had excellent, almost daily, cooperation with the DoJ.”

“If this initial opinion is confirmed, Fifa will have to change its rules.”

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.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

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.