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Jean-Noël Barrot: “In this world of a return to the law of the strongest, Switzerland and the EU need to cultivate a close relationship to present a face of unity”

Published on January 22, 2025 at 05:15.

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Jean-Noël Barrot is Franco-Swiss and regularly visits our country. This dual nationality will not be enough to make him comment on the Swiss political system, nor that of the country, , which he serves as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs. This 41-year-old economist, vice-president of the Democratic Movement (Modem) who taught at MIT before being appointed professor at HEC , is strongly committed elsewhere.

Two days before joining the World Economic Forum in Davos, receiving us in his office on the Quai d’Orsay, a few meters from the room in which his illustrious predecessor Robert Schuman laid the foundations of European construction 75 years ago , it is based on the founding values ​​of this project. A driving force in the minister’s work, as a phase of acute “world disorder” begins, according to him.

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