#euro

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#closer #come #effort #european #european union

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

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#does #euro #france #like #now

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. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#constitution #dimension #documents #european #following

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

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#europe #obviously #union

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. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#21st century #building #century #europe #process

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

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#along #citizen #europeans #freedom #french

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#choice #european #european union #facing #historic

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. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#been #beneficial #context #country #currencies

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. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#cultural #cultural diversity #defend #diversity #europe

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#assure #believe #concerns #diversion #europe