My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.