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

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

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.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

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.

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

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