Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".