There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.