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Charles Jaigu: "Brexit: the wrong direction of history"

2021-02-03T19:49:59.735Z


CHRONICLE - Former French Ambassador to London at the time of Brexit, Sylvie Bermann recounts British illusions and arrogances. Without mince words or losing humor.


She paved the way for women ambassadors to permanent member countries of the United Nations Security Council.

Sylvie Bermann nevertheless insists on the use of the masculine, which designates the function, unlike the next generation who prefers "Madame the ambassador" - an expression which formerly designated the ambassador's wife ... The feminine breakthrough of the smiling student of Languages ​​O 'in the upper echelons of the Quai d'Orsay began with Beijing in 2011. Knowing Mandarin gives an advantage in the bilateral relationship with the Chinese giant.

But an ambassador can only stay in office for three years, which is too short.

In 2014, he was therefore offered a western and peaceful latitude: London.

This Anglophile had no idea that she would become a spectator of an acid, absurd, navel-gazing and masochistic comedy: Brexit.

She makes the relation without any joke, in particular with regard to "Boris", whom she calls a frenzied liar.

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Source: lefigaro

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