The 28-member Europe must be simpler, clearer, more efficient, and continue to advance on digital and energy issues.
My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.
In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.
We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.