Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti gestures during his meeting with the European Commission President at the Palazzo Chigi in Rome on September 6, 2012. Mario Monti welcomed the European Central Bank’s decision to buy bonds issued by heavily indebted eurozone countries in order to ease towering borrowing costs. For his part, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he believed “the ECB is acting fully within its mandate to maintain the integrity of the monetary policy,” adding that the central bank “must act completely independently, as it is doing.” AFP PHOTO/ FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/GettyImages)
