European construction is the only factor in the continuity of French foreign policy since the Fourth Republic.
General de Gaulle accelerated the common market and recorded reconciliation with Germany.
Georges Pompidou launched the first enlargement marked by the accession of the United Kingdom.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing created the shield and the monetary snake with Helmut Schmidt.
François Mitterrand presided over the Single Act and then the creation of the euro.
Jacques Chirac concludes the very controversial Treaty of Nice.
Nicolas Sarkozy steered the management of the euro crisis with Angela Merkel.
After François Hollande's vain attempt to renegotiate the stability pact, Emmanuel Macron pleaded for the overhaul of the Union, which took shape with the recovery plan.
European commitment was a French passion;
it has become a matter of interests.
This permanence of the European axis went hand in hand with a growing reserve, the symbol of which remains the rejection of the draft Constitution by the referendum of 2005. European commitment was a French passion;
he became
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