If Brussels is all powerful (which if you believe the UK press they most certainly are) you have to ask why they haven't stamped hard on the Italian government's never ending efforts to circumvent the state aid regulations where Alitalia are concerned.
It makes a total mockery of a free and fair market and competition.
The single market IS the problem, it's dysfunctional and not a level playing field. The point is (pretty obvious really)
that one size cannot fit all.
Think this comment is wrong? then look at the disaster that is the single currency!