Can they afford the social model that was built up over the past 50 years?
Crucially, the European social model also enjoyed an amazingly low degree of external competition.
Graph search is another indication of how crucial the social model is becoming to the recruiting industry.
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It is chiefly resistance to change and a determination to preserve the French social model at all costs.
The French social model could only be defended if tough measures were adopted.
In France its social model is seen as defining its way of life.
What Syriza shares with the Dem Left and Pasok is its commitment to the EU social model: they are left globalists.
There is an irony here: to preserve a distinctively open-handed Scottish social model, staying in the union might be the safest choice.
There is less urgency, it seems, about making painful reforms of Europe's social model, or of its inflexible labour and product markets.
Sweden's centre-right leader, Fredrik Reinfeldt, is reluctant to be seen attacking his country's generous social model by trimming benefits, pay and pensions.
They mean regulation, inflexible labour markets, European, or even worse the German social model which he blames for the continent's high unemployment.
They all adopted austerity policies to cut public spending, but France has bucked the trend, raising taxes instead to protect its social model.
Mr de Villepin, who worked for seven years as Mr Chirac's chief of staff, shares his faith in the faltering French social model.
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The European economic and social model needs to change, but not so much so that social and environmental issues take a backseat to economic growth.
Do you believe we could defend our social model or our cultural exception as strongly if France is weakened, if the French-German tandem is weakened?
With France in an anxious mood about its economy, social model and place in the world, the possibility of surprises in the first round remains very much alive.
Euro-11 might discuss such large issues as tax harmonisation, common wage policies, even a common approach to social policies, such as the preservation of what is known as Europe's social model.
Blair is proposing to set a course for globalisation by speeding up the free-market process and the reform of its social model... reducing Brussels to the role of a bursar serving the states.
The candidates who have done well have been those who have suggested that France does not have to choose between its "social model" and international competitiveness, and stirred up their followers with more emotive stuff.
You know, French people are used to not working that hard and still keeping a social model that gives them a lot of security if they lose their jobs, if they're sick, if they're old, if they're ill.
"I think in order to make progress we have to answer those in a clear way - and in particular we have got to show how you can have a new European social model for today's world, " he told the FT.
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That explains why his fellow leaders gave in so readily to the French president's insistence that the only way he could win his vote would be if they dropped talk of further economic reform, scrapped the services directive and made preservation of Europe's social model their priority.
But there is a basic clash between those like Blair, summit host Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy -- who want to free up labour markets -- and those like France and Belgium. who retain enthusiasm for the "European Social Model" with a heavy emphasis on workers' rights.
Somewhere along the way, its social market model lost steam and became counterproductive to economic growth.
His keenest instinct is to preserve the French way of life, with its social welfare model.
In social business model, the two teams need to become one virtual team that is ideally co-located.
Answer: Nothing says America must trade centuries of dynamism, innovation and social mobility for the Western European social democracy model.
Disillusioned with what he had seen of the traditional top-down, government-funded social services model, and now equipped with some knowledge of business, Lance decided on a capitalistic approach.
For GIF applications that are using the social Instagram model, Arrow said it would be very difficult to get users to switch to sharing content on a different platform.
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Next week America will decide whether to gamble on the economic prosperity prescription being offered by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, or on the social equity model presented by the incumbent president Barack Obama.
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