39 Quotes by Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's reference points, ... If the current pressures were to be perpetuated, they could threaten the pursuit of global growth, as we have learned - in a different context, it is true -- from past oil shocks.

We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy.

When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not how we resolve those problems,

Very often we use the word historical but it's not historical. This time it is, because I think this is the first time 12 nations, 12 large nations, decide to join their currency, their sovereignty, and to have the same currency. And it's not only a question of a new currency, it's a new stage in the building up of the European Union.

Europe is viewed as being the steady and growing element of the whole system,

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

This is very good news for the Socialists. I think it is important that the Socialist Party closed ranks on a leftist ticket.

derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.