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Michel Barnier: "In my room, I had the poster of Charles de Gaulle"

2021-02-12T14:31:38.900Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - Mission accomplished - Brexit has been negotiated - Michel Barnier will return home to France with, at the age of 70, the enthusiasm and indignation to serve his country. He pursues a destiny nourished by his mother, de Gaulle and Jean Jaurès.


By Béatrice Delvaux and Élodie Lamer (Le Soir)

Michel Barnier receives us in his office at the Berlaymont.

The Brexit deal package is on the table in front of him.

On the walls, a poster of Solidarnosc, photos of de Gaulle, Schuman and Monnet, Jean-Claude Killy with the Pope.

But it is about his mother, Christian, feminist and committed that he will talk to us a lot.

THE EVENING.

- You would not have become what you are if ...?

Michel BARNIER.

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Professionally, I would not have been the European Union negotiator for Brexit if I had not had experience as a French and European politician.

In France, I was notably Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

As European Commissioner, I was in charge of the internal market and financial services.

I was able to use all of this during these four and a half years on Brexit.

But above all, I would not have been in this position if Jean-Claude Juncker had not trusted me.

Read also: Can Michel Barnier save the right?

And why did he make me

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Source: lefigaro

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