Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.

It's normal for a new prime minister to enjoy rising popularity in the first months. The difficulties run very deep. The context is profoundly depressed.

There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.