For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

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.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

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.

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

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