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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

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

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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Economist

Born: June 20th, 1925

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