She hasn't had time yet to set up her large office on the sixth floor of the Colbert building in Bercy. Since coming to the post of chief economist of the Treasury a month ago, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré has lived to the rhythm of the violent recession that is raging. Macroeconomic forecasts for the next finance law, definition of stimulus policies… on leave from the Sorbonne and the Paris School of Economics (EEP), the teacher now applies her lessons to the uneven terrain of France on leaving health crisis.
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The exercise does not frighten this convinced 54-year-old European who has always kept an eye on economic policy. She co-wrote a reference manual on the subject and then led the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), the body that advises Matignon, from 2012 to 2017. “When Bruno Le Maire offered me this job at the start of the health crisis, I said to myself that at such a critical moment, I could not refuse. There is of course a risk of frustration because I cannot
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