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… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
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. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
