Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

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

I am the president of the youth of France.

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

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.