Emmanuel Macron has decided to mark the 60th anniversary of the OECD, an international organization headquartered in Paris, at the Château de la Muette.
In addition to videoconference exchanges, the President of the Republic will receive in flesh and blood at the Élysée the Secretary General of the OECD, the Mexican Angel Gurria, as well as the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, or the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez.
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Resulting from the implementation of the Marshall Plan in the immediate post-war period, the OECD has 37 member states.
If its work in the field of education (the Pisa ranking) is undoubtedly the best known to the general public, since the financial crisis of 2008, the institution of la Muette has established itself as the armed wing of the G20 countries. to make economic policy recommendations, particularly in fiscal matters.
It was she who orchestrated the negotiations in more than 135 countries aiming to reform global taxation in order to tax multinationals and digital giants according to common rules.
This vast project also provides for a minimum international corporate tax threshold.
France and the European Union support this reform, which is technically successful but has so far been blocked by the Trump administration.
The anniversary will be an opportunity to send a strong message to the future Biden Administration.
Washington is also preventing, for the moment, that a consensus emerge to designate a successor to Angel Gurria.
The latter will leave his post in May, after fourteen years at the head of the OECD.
Donald Trump pushes the candidacy of his former adviser Christopher Liddell, facing, among others, among the Europeans, the former Swedish commissioner, Cecilia Malmström.