Tag: Monti

"The EU needs new thinking. After eight years of stop-start negotiations, the Union finally has a new rulebook, the Lisbon Treaty. But, despite Europeans' shared anxieties about economic growth, government debt, the stability of the euro, immigration and the environment, there is not yet a clear sense of what the EU's priorities for the next five years should or will be," writes Hugo Brady, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, in a December commentary.

Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has rejected Berlusconi's offer for him to replace Finance Minister Tremonti. Monti prefers a third term in Brussels.

The European Commission adopted Commissioner Monti's blueprint for a radical reform of EU competition policy. The blueprint is a follow-up to the White paper on modernisation of the rules concerning articles 81 (restrictive agreements) and 82 (abuses of dominant positions), which former Commissioner Van Miert launched in April 1999.