A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

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

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

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