Brussels, 22/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Monday's edition of the Financial Times, former European Commissioner for competition, and Dean of the University of Bocconi in Milan, Mario Monti, said that it was a “shame”, that the “naming and shaming” had been withdrawn from the context of reviving the Lisbon Strategy for countries that were failing to implement reforms. He pointed out that the publication of score boards had been very useful for pushing the internal market forward and that at the end of the 1990s, Germany was against such scoreboards because it “exposes its delay” but several years later acknowledged that the pressure had helped it to speed up the process. Monti says that if the Commission regularly published “Lisbon scoreboards, citizens would be less confused and governments would feel greater pressure to implement the needed reforms”. Speaking about the Stability Pact, Mr Monti said that equal treatment of Member States had been breached (severity with regard to Ireland and Portugal and suspension of procedures against France and Germany). He admitted that any rewriting of the pact could, however, prove to be economically viable. Mr Monti stated that at the first discussions at the European Commission in 1996 he had always supported the outlawing of deficits but that less restrictive treatment of public investment was needed too.