Bruno Le Maire turns into professor in Lausanne, however says see you quickly to the French | EUROtoday

It is 11:10 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, when Bruno Le Maire takes the microphone in entrance of a whole lot of visitors gathered within the giant courtyard of Bercy. “My pricey mates, I’m leaving, he begins. As Michel Sardou would say, I like you, however I'm leaving.” A song about a child's suicide, a curious musical reference for a farewell speech. The minister probably did not know the meaning of the words of I fly for the author. Because the rest of Bruno Le Maire's remarks are clear: if he is preparing to give up politics for the moment and hand over the keys to Bercy, which he has held since May 2017, this departure is not definitive. “I hope that we are going to preserve the bond that we’ve woven for seven years, and so I say see you quickly,” he concludes, contrary to his message to the French, published simultaneously on X.

In the immediate future, Bruno Le Maire, 55, will begin a new life. “It's time for me to breathe a unique air from that of politics”he confided on Thursday. After twenty-two years of political activity, he will no longer have, in a few days, any national or local mandate, nor any position in the civil service. He resigned in 2012, so as not to demand efforts from the French, while enjoying comfortable security in a personal capacity – “This must be the rule for everybody”he stressed in his speech.

A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, agrégé de lettres and an ENA graduate, Bruno Le Maire will return to his first vocation: teaching. After receiving offers from several American and European universities, he chose to give courses on the “financial and geopolitical points” at E4S, a university establishment in Lausanne, Switzerland. “I’ll naturally proceed to reside in France, which is my homeland, my life, my ardour”, he said, to cut short any controversy over a tax exile. For reasons of ethics, joining a company would be difficult for him in the short term, as he has seen so many files pass through Bercy. As for the royalties from his novels, they are not enough to support him.

Farewell Tour

“And then? Then, time will inform.”, said the future teacher. “My greatest political battles are forward of me”, had stated in June in The Point the one who would have dreamed of being President of the Republic or Prime Minister. He is still among the twenty political figures of whom the French have the best opinion, according to the IFOP-Fiducial barometer for Paris Match and Sud Radio. But what will these fights look like? Where will he lead them, given that he has broken with Les Républicains and distanced himself from the inner circle of Macronists, especially after having described “woodlice” The advisers who incited the pinnacle of state to dissolve the Assembly? Mystery.

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