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

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.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

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.

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

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.