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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Birth: | 20th July, 1925 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Economist, Politician |
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors was born in Paris, France. He is a French economist and politician, previously the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office. He is the father of Martine Aubry, the former first secretary of the Socialist Party of France. Under President François Mitterrand, he served as Economics and Finance Minister from 1981 to 1984. In 1990 he received the Freedom medal.
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