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.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

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

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

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

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.

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