#europe

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#decide #engaged #europe #fully #i

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#both #continue #domestic #domestic policy #european

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#dependent #economy #european #export #france

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#european #future #growth #mission #now

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#europeans #false #french #germans #going

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#although #basis #contacts #defend #english

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #blues #europe #go #parts

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. ↗

— John Howe

#architecture #art #culture #enduring #europe

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#direct #europe #european #except #life

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now