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.

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

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

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

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

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

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