En unan eus ar skridoù dilomatel savet gant servijoù er Stadoù-Unanet ez eus kaoz eus ar pezh a vije bet lavaret gant Michel Rocard e 2005: «Rocard, like former president Valery Giscard dEstaing, believes that French history provides the keys for understanding French politics and Frances policies. Rocards point of departure is Frances emergence as a nation-state. The history of other European nation-states is that of linguistic communities serving their trade needs. France created itself by destroying five cultures -- Breton, Occitan, Alsatian, Corsican, and Flemish. We are the only European nation which is the military creation of a non-homogeneous State. This makes France difficult to govern to this day. This explains our difficulty in reforming, our slowness, he said.»