If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

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.

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

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.