Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabiusis a French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 August 1946
CountryFrance
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At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.
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Europe is viewed as being the steady and growing element of the whole system,
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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.
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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.
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I think really this time it's a historical moment,
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We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy.
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One of the reasons for this decision is that the share price is crawling along and that in new privately managed logic the way to lift shares is to cut jobs.
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I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.
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derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.
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There is a social crisis which risks getting worse.
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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,
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This is very good news for the Socialists. I think it is important that the Socialist Party closed ranks on a leftist ticket.
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The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
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I think there will be talks between the banks and the unions. But the introduction of the euro is a historic act,