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.

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

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

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

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

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.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.