An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

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

I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.