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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8552

30 September 2003
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Alstom affair provokes real debate on industrial policy at European Parliament - Commissioner Monti's explanations

Europe's history is full of encouraging examples of restructuring. The Alstom affair has shown that Community definitely worked and god knows only too well how sensitive this affair really was. Loyalty to the principles and rules of free competition require from European Commissioner Mario Monti (and the Commission as a whole, which assumes collegial responsibility for the decisions) a first rate intellectual rigour and the ability to resist under pressure. I'm not only thinking of political...

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