Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

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.

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.

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 with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

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.