Jacques Delors

Economist

1925-06-20

Quotes by Jacques Delors

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

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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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• 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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• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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