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Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.

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

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.