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.

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.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

I am the president of the youth of France.