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

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

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 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.

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

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.

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