Brussels, 09/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - "It is a book that will be closed" declared, on Wednesday, the European Commissioner for Competition, Mario Monti, in announcing a "very close" solution, in his eyes, to the problem of the setting of prices for book in Germany and Austria. "We have carefully studied the proposals that the German and Austrian publishers and bookshops have made, last January 17, which mainly consist of replacing the existing transnational system with two national systems...