We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.