Former director of the Government Information Service (SIG), Philippe Guibert has just published
Gulliver Enchainé
, published by Editions du Cerf.
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LE FIGARO. - Do the crisis in the agricultural world and then the excesses at the Agricultural Show symbolize what you describe in your book, namely that political leaders have become emergency managers, who govern only through publicity stunts?
Philippe GUIBERT. -
The agricultural crisis illustrates the trap in which the president is locked but also accepts to lock himself.
It is a European crisis, product of the globalized race for low cost, which underlines the impasse of the European Union as it was designed, but to which our successive presidents have adhered since 2005, despite the “no” to the European constitution.
It is a crisis from which the president wanted to escape through a communication stunt of the digital age, under the gaze of continuous news channels, with a somewhat crude repetition of the “great debate” of…
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