Emmanuel Macron

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.

It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

We back Hinkley Point project. It's very important for France; it's very important for the nuclear sector and EDF.

France is back.