This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

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.

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

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.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.