Second day of state visit by Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni: state banquet at Guildhall / Sarkozy speech

Second day of state visit by Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni: state banquet at Guildhall / Sarkozy speech; Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France) speech SOT (translation on Track 2) - It is a great honour for me to address the City of London, in this building steeped in history, I did not imagine that tonight we would be celebrating our wedding before Wellington, even drinking to Waterloo / Wonderful opportunity, as I look at Wellington standing right in front of me I have not looked to one side, looked straight at him, say to myself that history has something to teach us in terms of the world's safety and security, French and the British against common enemies / I didn't imagine I would be talking about Waterloo this evening but it is important, what I love about the British is your attachment to your sense of nationhood, respect for your own identity and the love of your own history, it is not aggressive to defend one's own identity / Waterloo is behind us, let us look at the future - Allow me to speak freely to friends / My first idea is that France is changing, has watched what you have been able to do, what you have done with your economy, there has been no British miracle, there have been mistakes on our part which was to devalue the value of work, you have built one of the world's most prosperous economies, intelligent approach to work, you have learnt from your past mistakes, today you are more prosperous than we are / Freedom, flexibility, hard work, sense of merit and recognition for what each and every person has invested / France has a lot to learn from others / I understand that the world has become a global village, that we cannot succeed alone, team effort, France is changing, change is afoot, it is possible, that is common sense / Deeply held conviction / You can invest in France, it is a good investment for the future, the dynamism of your economy we need in Europe, we don't want to build Europe without the British / If you want Europe ...