If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
From Jacques Delors
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.
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
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 problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
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