38 Quotes by Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

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.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

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

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.

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

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

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.