But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

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

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

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

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