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Gilles Clavreul: “The question is no longer 'why is the company cracking?' but "how is it that it still holds?" "

12/17/2021, 7:05:27 PM


INTERVIEW - In his new book, the senior official and co-founder of the Republican Spring explains why the state has become silent and suggests ways to restore its authority.

Gilles Clavreul is co-founder of Printemps republican and general delegate of the L'Aurore think tank.

He was interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism from 2015 to 2017. He has just published

Dans le silence de l'Éta

t, with Éditions de l'Observatoire.

LE FIGARO.

- Contrary to a liberal discourse which describes the French State as omnipotent, a structure which regulates - a little too much - the actions of citizens, you speak of a

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weak

" State

in the face of citizens "who do not believe more in him ”.

How did we get here ?

Gilles CLAVREUL.

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The republican state in France has developed on a liberal matrix.

The State is in a way a variant of political and philosophical liberalism whose objective is not only the regulation of the market, but the constitution of a national community.

In this sense, this book is neither anti-liberal nor even a critique of the liberal matrix, but of some of its contemporary developments, in particular the…

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