#europe

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

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#affirm #any #consequence #dissipate #doubts

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#economy #europe #industries #job #long

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark