A former student of the ENA, the diplomat Xavier Driencourt alternated between functions in Paris (diplomatic adviser to Alain Juppé at Matignon, director general of the administration of the Quai d'Orsay, head of the General Inspectorate of Foreign Affairs) and abroad (consul general in Sydney, French ambassador to Malaysia, French ambassador to Algeria between 2008 and 2012, then between 2017 and 2020). He published “The Algerian Enigma. Chronicles of an Embassy in Algiers” (Observatory Editions, March 2022).
LE FIGARO.
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A strike notice was filed for June 2 by several Quai d'Orsay staff unions in order to protest
, in particular, against the reform of its management, published in
the Official Journal
, in a certain haste, between the two rounds of the presidential one.
How do you explain this almost unprecedented slingshot?
Xavier DRIENCOURT.
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This is actually the third strike at the Quai d'Orsay, the first having taken place under Roland Dumas in 1983. On the form, there was...
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