Pierre-Édouard Stérin desires to “do politics like we do business” | EUROtoday

She phrase is as uncommon because the fantasies it arouses are quite a few. Pierre-Édouard Stérin, a 50-year-old French entrepreneur, is understood within the enterprise world for his investments in eating places and tech, from LaFourchette to Oh My Cream, by way of Carmat. His notoriety lately took a leap far past when he determined to place his colossal fortune – born from the creation of Smartbox and estimated at 1.4 billion euros – on the service of what he believes in.

Firstly, within the service of its Catholic religion, by financing, by way of its Common Good Fund, quite a lot of tasks in training, tradition and solidarity. But additionally, and above all, within the service of his conservative liberal political convictions, as evidenced by his need for a “union of the rights”, by way of…