Rendezvous with the near future

In this book, modest in terms of volume (128 pages), Bruno Le Maire, one of the most prominent men in his political family, makes an appointment with the voters ("the people" in France) to make things happen with and for them.

Family origins aristocratic and bourgeois, secondary and tertiary curricula of official career, resignation of the public service for the benefit of one political commitment, ten years of close relationship with the head of the executive activities as an MP, values ​​and ideas ... The Mayor presents with address in "letting go" just enough to please almost all social groups, be they of the "old France" or that of the early twenty-first century . This is quite legitimate, finally, for someone who aimed squarely Elysium ... and who would - indeed - a very good candidate when the time comes.

Speaking to the generation that "monte" (>), the one to whom it will - at the right time, without clinging (p. 124) - pass the torch, Mayor reviews, desultory and in a generally close to the spoken language style, weaknesses and strengths of France, and affirms its faith in the future of this country with great history and tormented at once, which must obviously take all aspects, glorious, less glorious or shameful (pp. 106-108). He believes in France and, rightly or wrongly, is convinced that he should not seek to model elsewhere - at most a little inspiration - because "(p. 65).

Bruno Le Maire also discusses Europe, but there, his strength of conviction does not seem to live up to the place of France, a founder of what became the European Union. Like many French, Le Maire's hard to conceive of France as a simple element - even if it is essential - among others of a larger whole, the European Union, which is now the living environment of twenty -eight people who have chosen to move forward together in peace and democracy. To say that France is> his freedom of decision by the European authorities (p. 88) is neither true nor accurate. A former technocrat who was extra diplomat, can not, without suit populists, blaming the Union, co-founded by France, to be what it is.

Apart from this drawback, the book contains many interesting reflections, shows what daily commitment of a politician "who wants" - less elsewhere for himself than for his country - and gives hope at a time when the French really need it.

Orinoco