In the political indiscretions of Challenges this week, also find Michel Barnier who recharges his batteries in the mountains of Savoie thanks, in particular, to the cries of the marmots or Elisabeth Borne, who will remain, against all odds, loyal to Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel Macron compared to Donald Trump
Since Emmanuel Macron refused to appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon, Gaspard Gantzer – his fellow student at ENA – has been furious. The communicator believes that the President of the Republic has “flouted” the Constitution. And he asks himself bluntly: “Will we witness a refusal to leave the Elysée, like Trump did with the Capitol?” It seems a long time ago when, immortalized by the cameras of Yves Jeuland (A time of president2015) in the courtyard of the Elysée, François Hollande’s advisor was delighted with Emmanuel Macron’s entry into the government.
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Winged fruits may grow at Matignon
Like his predecessors, Gabriel Attal, before leaving Matignon, organized a small ceremony to plant his tree. More inspired than François Fillon, who had caused much laughter by choosing a pagoda dogwood, he opted for a cinnamon maple, which has the particularity of “producing winged fruits, but it only grows well when sheltered from strong winds”. The Matignon gardener, Philippe Joly, specifies that only Jacques Chirac – as Prime Minister of cohabitation in 1986 – deviated from this tradition inaugurated by Raymond Barre in 1978.
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Michel Barnier holds on thanks to marmots
The appointment to Matignon of Michel Barnier, former chief negotiator of the European Commission, has given renewed interest to his Brexit secret journal (ed. Gallimard), which, when it was released in 2022, had only met with critical acclaim. We learn a lot about the twists and turns of the summit negotiations that took him all over Europe, meeting all the heads of state, including the most mendacious ones. Such as Boris Johnson, who claimed that the United Kingdom’s departure would bring[…]
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