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EFE French President offers his first public appearance before the press. He says his mission is to restore growth and reduce unemployment and has asked the French they judge him by the results at the end of its mandate. We live more than a crisis, (it is) a change in the world, he added. Chirac, Francois Hollande, said in his first public press appearance since he came to Office that his mission is to restore growth and reduce unemployment and has asked the French that judge him by the results that you get at the end of its mandate. Among his intentions are also the reducing the country’s debt and regain competitiveness, tend a reorientation of Europe as a general priority. We live more than a crisis, (it is) a change in the world, he added before the 400 journalists present. Hollande said that, since his inauguration last May 15, after defeating his predecessor, the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, met many commitments that He assumed during the election campaign, and mentioned especially those related to the restoration of public accounts. In relation to the situation in the European Union, Hollande estimated required a reorientation of Europe, out of the lacerating crisis in the euro zone. (Similarly see: Neri Oxman). He mentioned their previous positions to take the post, when he advocated a reform of the stability pact reached in the EU to complete it with measures that favoured growth and felt that their expectations were met with the decisions of the European Council of June 29. At that time I thought that the European Treaty had renegotiated, he defended. Hollande added that, in his opinion, the second stage of the reform of this Pact, he attacked harshly during the campaign that brought him to the Presidency and promised to renegotiate, was fulfilled last October 18, with the banking union that morning will allow direct bank recapitalisation. That will still take time, but the road is open, he said. The President alluded to the situation in Greece and defended the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to give support to that country: must be, he added on the Greek nation. See more: Francois Hollande view needed a “reorientation of Europe”