I start by congratulating Mr Rosati for a clear and well focussed report that has also the merit of being very much to the point. However while having this merit, the report might also be overlooking some points which a number of us here consider to be quite important. We have come to consider country
The management of competition policy in the single market is focusing on strategic areas of development, like the digital market, to ensure that fair and transparent rules of competition sustain level playing fields and suppress dominant behaviour . That is commendable. However too often, in Europe as elsewhere, the lucrative mass consumer markets, as well
Last week as the agreement with Greece was being hammered out the point up to the last was mad that the deepest problem was the one of trust. Now, we have an agreement that politically in my view can best be compared not to Versailles historically but to the settlement of the Second Opium War
The progress being achieved on the Scandinavian Mediterranean corridor work plan is quite impressive and I think much of the credit for that should be given to Mr Cox personally as Corridor coordinator. I spoke about this to the authorities in Malta and they were all praise for the follow up and flexibility that have
Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that it is much more likely that the greatest beneficiaires of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to be negotiated between the European Union and the United States will be the largest multinationals on both sides of the Atlantic. Dr. Sant said he
The reality is that we live in a globalised trading system that obeys neo liberal rules. There have always been supraregional corporations from Roman times at least. Today, multinational companies straddle the world and have to maximise profits and resources if they are to survive. This reality is superimposed on nation states that still exist
