20/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - "What model are we talking about?", asked Eugen Bruand, delegate general of International Movement ATD Fourth World, on the "European social model", which is central to many debates today. We can hold endless discussions of the advantages of the French or the Anglo-Saxon model, but at the end of the day, he says in issue 195 of Fourth World Review, "it is the most vulnerable who pay the bill" because "whatever policies governments choose, there is no policy which sets itself the only admissible aim: that everybody, without exception, should be able to share in human activity. All policies seem to accept as inevitable that a part of the human race- a part which, certainly, everyone would like to be as small as possible- will be left out of account". Stating that this model " still has to be worked out and constructed in cooperation with all those who, because they are poor, suffer from extreme social exclusion", Mr Bruand points out: "the French Minister of Labour recently demonstrated this attitude of resignation when he said that we are moving towards a form of full employment with a 6% rate (of unemployment) in five years' time. Are we so sure that these 6% who will be deprived of the right to work will appreciate this very relative form of full employment ?".