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The 57-year-old senior civil servant specialising in budgetary issues, who assisted Bruno Le Maire at Bercy, is joining Matignon to work alongside the new Prime Minister.
Bruno Le Maire’s Bercy, official supplier of chief of staff to Prime Ministers. In January, there was Emmanuel Moulin, who left the general management of the Treasury to join Matignon alongside Gabriel Attal. Michel Barnier, who has just taken up his duties, is seconded by Bruno Le Maire’s last chief of staff at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Jérôme Fournel, who was previously director general of public finances. An appointment announced Friday evening by the world and whose Release a eu confirmation.
Michel Barnier, after hesitating for several hours, finally chose this “budget profile” rather than a prefect, which was suggested by his handover speech on the steps of Matignon on Thursday, in which he cited “daily security, control of immigration”. Jérôme Fournel will not need any time to become aware of the extent of the deterioration in public finances with a Prime Minister who repeated in the courtyard of Matignon on Thursday and again on TF1 on Friday that he would say “the truth”, “even if [elle] is difficult” on “financial debt”, “because the situation is extremely serious”.
The 57-year-old senior budgetary specialist, who served as
