On the screen, an economist from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) speaks in elegant English.
It is a question of a return to growth in Europe, of creative destruction and of a timetable for stopping public aid…
"Tell the restaurants that, they will be happy!"
, suddenly grumbled Emmanuel Moulin.
The new Director of the Treasury - he arrived on November 2 - takes part in this virtual meeting of the Eurogroup working group from his office on the sixth floor of Bercy.
Seated opposite him, two senior officials, Alexandre Baclet, deputy director of European affairs in the macroeconomic policies and European affairs department, and Paul Bonmartin, deputy in charge of the euro zone of the Europe 2 office, do not report.
Leaning over their computers, they never lose a word of the IMF's recommendations, then of the answers of the representatives of the Commission, of the European Central Bank (ECB).
Everything is recorded in religious silence.
Through the window, a
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