I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion.

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

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM - the eurozone's new rescue fund. Let's stop thinking that there's only one country who's going to pay for the others. That's false.