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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.