The President of the Italian Council, Mario Monti at the European Parliament

20^th February 2012

The President of the Italian Council, Mario Monti, spoke to MEPs during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 15th February. He notably spoke of budgetary measures that his government was implementing at present to counter the crisis. He presented his budgetary austerity plan, adding that to be effective it had to be completed by a strengthened domestic market. For the time being pensioners, civil servants and taxation were the focus of the reforms that had been started. He also denounced the "exaggerated hardness" with which Greece is being treated, deeming that it is too late for this kind of approach.

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