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.

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.

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 desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

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

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

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