• French fiscal plans sufficient
  • Euro zone spreads don’t reflect reality
  • Have to re-establish confidence in euro zone
  • Inflation in eurozone will come back to level of our objective within the next few months
  • We will do whatever is necessary to avoid deflation or tackle inflation
  • Our baseline scenario in France is there won’t be a recession
  • Europe’s economic growth could return to normal next year (bet it doesn’t)