I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.
Laurent FabiusBut Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
Laurent FabiusI am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
Laurent FabiusThanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.
Laurent Fabius