Alberto Mingardi is a Director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni (www.brunoleoni.it), an Italian free-market think tank, and a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for the New Europe (www.cne.org), a Brussels-based think tank. He was a 2002 Calihan Fellow at the Acton Institute.
Last week, European Union Commissioner Mario Monti inflicted a €497 million fine on Microsoft, the highest fine in the history of European antitrust regulation.
In his annual Lenten message, promulgated in advance of the upcoming season of preparation for Easter, Pope John Paul II stressed how devastating AIDS has been to the African continent.