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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
We will have to create an avant-garde ... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.
