For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

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

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

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

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

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

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