Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

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.

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

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.