It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.