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Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister designate, second left, arrives at a news conference to announce the names of the cabinet ministers that will form Italy's new government, at the Quirinale palace in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Monti, 68, told President Giorgio Napolitano he'd accepted the post and announced his Cabinet, which included Corrado Passera, Chief Executive Officer of Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, as industry minister and Antonio Catricala, the current head of the antitrust regulator, as deputy prime minister. Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister designate, second left, arrives at a news conference to announce the names of the cabinet ministers that will form Italy's new government, at the Quirinale palace in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Monti, 68, told President  Giorgio Napolitano he'd accepted the post and announced his Cabinet, which included Corrado Passera, Chief Executive Officer of Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, as industry minister and Antonio Catricala, the current head of the antitrust regulator, as deputy prime minister. Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images