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

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

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.

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

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

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.

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