Catherine Colonna Quotations

Let us do for energy what we once did for coal and steel.

Marginal changes won't suffice. We need more than that for an agreement. They need to address the double problem of this proposal: It gives too little to the poorest countries and too much to Britain. The key issue today is how we finance enlargement and the related question of the British rebate.

The president's position is that justice should be done.

The president reiterated France's position to him (Bush) -- that disarming Iraq is necessary and must be done within a U.N. framework.

An offer that was outside the mandate would not be binding for Europe and would therefore not enable an agreement in the round,

This is a meeting in the framework of our consultations about Iraq.