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

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

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

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

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.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

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.