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

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.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

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

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.