If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

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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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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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