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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.

There Is Just One France... One Single Nation, United In The Same Destiny.

My Mission Is To Put France Back On Its Feet. The Priority Is Employment. Efforts Have To Be Made, But Those Efforts Must Be Made Fairly.

The British Have Been Particularly Shy About The Issues Of Financial Regulation, And Attentive Only To The Interests Of The City - Hence Their Reluctance To See The Introduction Of A Tax On Financial Transactions And Tax Harmonisation In Europe.

A Large Country With Such Outstanding Economic Performance As Germany Cannot Forget That It Owes Some Of Its Success To Demand From Other European Countries.