People enter the Bank of Italy in Rome where a conference in honour of the late economist Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa takes place on December 16, 2011. Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti said Padoa-Schioppa, a former Italy’s finance minister and commonly considered a founding father of the euro, had understood “the need for Europe to strengthen policy apparatus around fiscal policy but to go beyond towards communitarian policies for growth.” AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)