And its finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, robustly rejected recent claims in the UK that France had become the "sick man of Europe".
He robustly rejects Öxit, the Austrian campaign to leave the EU, and celebrates the ability of Austria to mediate as a neutral country in international conflicts.
He dismissed "Pulling Yu Hua's Teeth" as "sensationalism" and robustly rejected the accusation that he performs for a Western audience.
On Friday Tsipras robustly rejected the creditors' terms for extending the bailout until the end of November, bitterly accusing the Europeans and the International Monetary Fund of deliberately seeking to humiliate Greece.
United robustly reject any suggestion that Nicolas Gaitan might head to Old Trafford as part of the same deal and The Independent understands that Gaitan has told a close friend in the past week that there has been no contact from United.
Some analysts speculated that it would also plug a looming hole in InBev's growth prospects following a poor first quarter this year and a warning that the second quarter may not be much better, but Brito robustly rejected that: 'We have been in this business for 20 years.
The Conservatives depicted these moves (see 4.43pm) as a shift to the left, or a sop to Len McCluskey, but Labour sources have robustly rejected this pointing out that Douglas Alexander, who ran David Miliband's campaign for the Labour leadership, has now been put in charge of the general election.
As Henry Overman, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, puts it, "schemes that restrict the ways in which we can use housing tend not to be beneficial to the poor".Sir Robin robustly rejects the notion that licensing housing will hurt the poor.
Therefore, this test robustly rejects the no-shifting hypothesis.
Ofsted robustly rejects any doubt being cast on the validity of its figures.
