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

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.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

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

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

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

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