Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

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.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

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

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.

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.