Jack Lang on the Arab World Institute, a hyperactive particular person with a blended report | EUROtoday

“When I am somewhere, I am there for eternity”Jack Lang usually repeated, and once more on the finish of December 2025, suggesting that he want to lengthen his lease on the head of the Arab World Institute (IMA) past the top of his fourth time period, scheduled for December 2026. Spattered by the scandal of the Epstein affair, which additionally affected his daughter Caroline, and regardless of requires resignation coming from all sides, together with from his political camp, the previous minister of socialist tradition, pleading naivety, endured in not desirous to resign. Summoned on Sunday February 8 by the Quai d’Orsay, his major authority, Jack Lang lastly needed to abdicate below duress, proposing his resignation on Saturday February 7 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, who took word of it. Not with out desirous to defend his report. Friday February 6, when his destiny appeared sealed, he insisted on sending us 5 works by courier to assist his actions throughout his lengthy reign inside the IMA.

Flanked by trustworthy from the very starting, particularly his cultural advisor, Claude Mollard, François Mitterrand’s all-powerful Minister of Culture has, it’s true, given new impetus to a moribund establishment, by profiting from his huge community to activate patronage.

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