The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

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

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

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.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.