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Jacques Delors

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


— Jacques Delors


#any #choosing #finished #franchise #own

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


— Jacques Delors


#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

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


— Jacques Delors


#contracts #employment #even #in the past #less

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


— Jacques Delors


#also #always #been #liberty #me

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


— Jacques Delors


#american society #composed #each #favours #fundamentally

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


— Jacques Delors


#decline #europe #france #i #myself

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.


— Jacques Delors


#enough #fresh #had #hard #i

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.


— Jacques Delors


#also #based #collective #devising #gave

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


— Jacques Delors


#between #collective #employers #governments #legislate

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.


— Jacques Delors


#also #anything #change #conservatives #left-wing






About Jacques Delors

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Did you know about Jacques Delors?

He served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981 becoming chairman of its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Post-Presidency
Delors has a long-standing interest in education. French politics
Born in Paris in a family originating from Corrèze Delors first held in the 1940s through the 1960s a series of posts in French banking and state planning with the Banque de France.

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French economist and politician the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office (between January 1985 and December 1994).

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