Europe must change after economic crisis, says Sarkozy

to question - kwestionować, podważać
We cannot witness such a catastrophe without questioning the ideas, the values, the decisions that led to such a result,

to commit a sin - popełnić grzech
lacking - brakujący
"There would be nothing worse in the current situation, as everything in the world is changing, than to commit a sin by lacking ambition, boldness, imagination," he said.

welfare state - państwo opiekuńcze, socjalne
He added that the crisis had highlighted the merits and virtues of "the French model" of the welfare state.