Pierre Moscovici leaves the Court of Auditors, however not the general public debate | EUROtoday

Joining the Court of Auditors on the age of 27 as an auditor, its first president, Pierre Moscovici, will bow out on December 31. Reached by the age restrict, at 68 years previous, he’ll be part of the peaceable and remunerative waters of the European Court of Auditors, in Luxembourg.

A departure that won’t have gone unnoticed. “Mr. First”as they are saying on rue Cambon, has multiplied interviews and press conferences in latest weeks. Mainly to boast about his report – “84% of French people know us and 82% consider it serious” –, in a context of mistrust in the direction of public authorities. The excessive monetary jurisdiction would have skilled underneath its magisterium an actual “metamorphosis”in response to a booklet printed for the event, after the ten sluggish years of his predecessor Didier Migaud (2010-2020).

Despite his report, the president of the establishment leaves with some private regrets. Like that of not having been appointed prime minister in September, after the autumn of François Bayrou. He, who had continued to warn lately concerning the slippage of the debt, would have seen himself nicely in ” appeal “on the head of a authorities accountable for placing funds again on observe, like a “Mario Draghi French style”. But Emmanuel Macron by no means thought-about appointing François Hollande’s former socialist minister of economic system and finance to Matignon, who calls himself “neither right-wing nor macronist” and claims to be a part of a left which “believes in reality”. ” Anyway, [le président] had Lecornu in mind »he sweeps away.

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