Brussels, 10/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, addressing the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on 5 July, welcomed the “important position” of competition policy in the draft Constitutional Treaty. A few hours earlier, the European Parliament adopted the report by non-aligned Italian MEP Benedetto della Vedova on the merger reform. Monti said he was reasonably optimistic that the policy that has brought the European project into...