Friendship requires telling things as they are, we must avoid misunderstandings and make sure all, and especially the Greek side, understand how things are.

Michel Sapin

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Unemployment is falling. This is not the moment to throw a spanner into the works with growth picking up.

We are now witnessing strikes that make no sense. by Michel Sapin

We are now witnessing strikes that make no sense.

There are several proposals, several ambiguities, in the texts that could allow one to think there may be a difference in treatment between London and the others. That's not possible, treatment has to be as identical as possible and that's why we are fighting.

The characteristic of this terrorism is that it is low-cost terro... by Michel Sapin

The characteristic of this terrorism is that it is low-cost terrorism but with considerable impact.

Carrying bundles of cash in bags is no longer used. Terrorists have a capacity to use all the new technologies to transfer money around so we need together have identical rules in countries.

Regulations have been put in place in France, there is a directive in Europe on this and I want to discuss this with the U.S. authorities to see how we could have the same regulations across all countries.

We remain collectively committed to working hard to find concrete solutions for a first step towards an FTT, even if it will probably not be by the end of this year, but at the beginning of next year.

I can clearly say that for 2014 France will respect the conditions that allow us to be in line with the application of the rules. The advantage of March is that we won't be working with hypothesis but with real data.