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

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

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

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

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.

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