Highways: autopsy of a national trauma

White mane, tanned complexion and unalterable plume. Dominique de Villepin refuses to let himself be locked in the position of the accused. The privatization of the highways that the political class today tends almost unanimously to consider as a mistake? It's him. And he assumes it. "My government has not sold off family jewels, nor has it killed the goose that lays the golden eggs", asserts the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac, summoned on July 9 in front of the senators of the commission of inquiry into motorway concessions, set up at the start of the year. One more investigation on a subject which, for fifteen years, has repeatedly drawn the ink from the judges of the Court of Auditors, analysts from the Competition Authority, parliamentarians on the occasion of information missions or bills for renationalization (the last in 2019…).

The rapporteur of the Senate committee, the centrist Vincent Delahaye, may repeat that his objective

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