There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.