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.

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

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

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

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

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.