The extracts from Jean-Louis Bourlanges’ speech for his legion of honor | EUROtoday

[Vendredi 5 septembre à 20 heures, Paris. Salon de l’Horloge, au Quai d’Orsay. Jean-Noël Barrot, ministre des affaires étrangères, vient de remettre les insignes de la Légion d’honneur à Jean-Louis Bourlanges, qui a siégé dix-huit ans au Parlement européen avant d’être élu en 2017 à l’Assemblée nationale, où il a présidé la commission des affaires étrangères. Tous deux sont membres de la même famille politique centriste, celle du MoDem qui est aussi celle de François Bayrou, encore premier ministre pour trois jours. M. Bayrou est là aussi, au premier rang de l’assistance, de même que son prédécesseur Michel Barnier et l’ambassadeur d’Ukraine.]

(…) My technology, that of the post-war youngsters, those who we qualify at this time, with a kind of apitoyed condescension, of “boomeurs”, doesn’t have press. We accuse him of getting inherited so much, insufficiently invented, pretty abused, and above all of getting been unable to take up the horrible challenges {that a} now ungrateful, extreme and threatening story launches us, a narrative that’s turning into increasingly with out us and which now tends, from Washington to Shanghai through Moscow, to be performed towards us.

The technology to which I belong obtained from the one who preceded it an immense inheritance and, when placing the bag, I, it’s true, the sensation that women and men of my time weren’t absolutely as much as this inheritance. I used to be lucky to jot down the primary a part of my life within the wake of two distinctive personalities: my mom and General de Gaulle. In their very own means, on the backside for one, on the very prime for the opposite, they had been for me each the symbols and the actors of this France of the braveness, the hassle and the valor which, after the horrible trials of the 2 wars, had identified learn how to discover the paths of freedom, solidarity, development and progress. (…)

Of General de Gaulle, I’ll solely say one factor: it’s that it was the honour of my youth to have (…) served this man and his motion, even when afterwards, I’ve like others (…) Taken the heritage in a resolutely European sense and, below the mental magisterium of Raymond Aron, no much less resolutely liberal.

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