Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.