Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.