His head is not in the stars but he dreams of a Europe which would also promise to send the first man to Mars, a Europe which would assert itself as a great power and would impose itself among the Americans "
who no longer protect us
"and the Chinese"
who threaten us
".
This is undoubtedly one of the government posts subject to the highest turnover: around twenty incumbents in twenty years.
Considered a less important ministry, like a springboard or a folding seat, the Secretary of State for European Affairs has always struggled to exist within the large Ministry of Foreign Affairs, generally occupied by big names in international politics.
He rarely pushed the men and women who occupied him into the light, with more or less happiness, moreover.
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