It should also move forward on two points

The United States agreed to the holding of a Summit on the global financial system; today held a meeting on tax havens. The PS has dreamed, Sarkozy did

It is rather Nicolas Sarkozy in the dream! Believe that bringing about a George w. Bush ending, heads of Governments jostled by the crisis, can give birth to a new international financial system is an illusion. It is too early. Should have been expected that the new US President is in service to hope a new direction for America and see translate decisions into action. The fight against tax havens, it is happy awareness during the crisis, but let us not forget that the France can already set an example by reviewing the conventions which the bind in Monaco, including on the taxation of natural persons. It can also put pressure on the Luxembourg Government on the harmonization of taxation on capital income.

The financial crisis you seem - it halted

States, as central banks, have identified sufficient liquidity for Bank fires. But we must remain prudent: the weaknesses remain and "toxic" chemicals continue to circulate. A month ago, Ms. Lagarde, unwisely, declared that the bulk of the crisis was"behind us." We know what it did. Delays of the Executive in the recognition and management of the crisis have cost enough that it avoids any relapse in naivety. The financial crisis is halted, but it is encysted.

Are counterparties requested banks sufficient

Non. This is why I have proposed to strengthen the control of the State by the presence of one of its representatives to the Board of Directors of banks applying for public security. Similarly, if a State participation is decided in a Bank, I asked a priority dividend payment the public shareholder return to good fortune. Finally, I am not in favour that are surrendered too fast entries to the capital of banks. The Government cannot behave like a banal assets Manager: there can be no question to sell before incurred a genuine regulation of the financial system.

Might it be that this participation be perennial

It is not question to nationalize all French banks, it is a model we tested. Do better with what it already has. We already have a public bank, the Banque Postale: strengthen the and, especially, does not the privatizing. We have the Caisse des Dépôts: really do the financial instrument of the France.

Ségolène Royal wants to prohibit professional banking those who mistake...

That should be severe for those who have ill made their profession, it is obvious. But it must go further, and to tackle the remuneration of executives. Conventional restrictions on golden parachutes coming to be decided is a drop in the ocean the excesses and aberrations. The Germany can serve as an example even if the ceiling of EUR 500 000 annual it just to create is already huge. I think that the social partners may provide a maximum gap between high and low pay. And if they do fail, legislate. It is unthinkable that some go in one day what others earn in a year. It should also move forward on two points. Transparency first: I request to know all the leaders of banks pay today. And then the taxation.

You talk about the tax shield

Yes, because it must see that it translates into the sanctuary of the highest income. They are the only people to be today some do not pay more in taxes by the end of the legislature. Others are exposed to all risk of increase in the levies.

The PS had abstained on the banking rescue plan. Can you afford such positions "mi-chou was"

We are voting on a text and a policy. The Bank rescue plan was necessary, but multiplying their calls for national unity, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon would in fact give discharge to the economic policy of deregulation and blindness. It's incredible that in voting for the firefighter, it also absolve the arsonist. The abstention was a choice of responsibility.

Are you worried about the French economy

Yes. Everything suggests that the recession started before the aggravation of the financial crisis is deeply installed for 2009, but also, if nothing is done, for 2010. With its destruction of jobs, business bankruptcies, lot of loss of purchasing power and increase in public debt. This is why the discussion on the 2009 budget has a surreal character. All the assumptions on which it is built are deciduous, whether growth it will be zero , consumption, which to the better will stagnate, or investment. Worse, Eric Woerth accepts this impasse: it recognizes that all forecast errors will pass in the increase in deficits.

Is this not inevitable

I accuse the Government of digging deficits without any effect of stimulus on economic activity: it is the passive deficit. We need to fight the recession, an active deficit: raise funding to research such as housing and investment of enterprises through modulation of the corporate income tax... Would thus create growth, so tax revenue, and it would call into question the tax package, which a portion could be used to the debt reduction Planner. Instead, we are heading blithely a public deficit of 3.5 to 4 of GDP. The Government is continuing its philosophy of "laissez-faire". It is the policy of the break dog of the deficit over the water of the recession.

Is the local tax hike announced, notably in Paris, not damaging to the purchasing power

Need to resist this temptation. In Corrèze, I augmenterai not taxes. But the pressure is enormous, given the disengagement of the State. There comes a time, and this is the case of Bertrand Delanoë in Paris, where it cannot be done otherwise.

What do you expect of the plan for employment presented Thursday

I want to believe that there will be a revival of assisted jobs and that the Government will not simply continue the deregulation of the market to work with the opening of shops on Sunday. This type of evidence that the conversion of Nicolas Sarkozy in the regulation is that circumstances and is only a partial view of capitalism. The right lost the ideological battle on liberalism. His error, it is to believe that only financial capitalism is the cause of the crisis. What is true of financial capitalism is of capitalism in all its dimensions.

You become anti-capitalist

No, all simply Socialist. Capitalism creates wealth, but generates by its excesses, the crises including the recurrence is more close for twenty years. The social democratic model is in force, this one was fun giggling sectarian Liberals and anti-capitalist primary.

Whenever the PS takes a position, his message is scrambled by discordant voices. Why it would change after the Congress of Reims

The Socialist militants are regulators of the Congress. That they look at the contents of the motions and that sign. That be supported those who have a coherent vision of the party and that are penalized those who create the unconformity. The renovation is not individualism and opportunism. It is the rule and change. I am committed to a point where this attitude is the rule.