Renaissance MEP and former Minister for European Affairs was the guest of “8:30 franceinfo” on Saturday May 21. She answered questions from Ersin Leibowitch and Myriam Encaoua.
New government: “A mix of continuity and openness”
The government of Elisabeth Borne, announced on Friday May 20, is “a mix continuity and openness to very different profiles“, greets Nathalie Loiseau. While Emmanuel Macron had announced a change in policy, the opposition criticizes the retention in government of 15 ministers from the previous team. “There are, at the same time,he pillars remain, in a time when things are not easy, and then also new faces“, defended Nathalie Loiseau.
“I understand the concern” of diplomats
Nathalie Loiseau has indicated that she is not “not sure to understand“the reform of the senior civil service desired by Emmanuel Macron. Opposed to this reform which provides for the disappearance of the diplomatic corps in 2023, unions are calling for a strike on June 2 at the Quai d’Orsay. “I understand the concern“says Nathalie Loiseau, herself from the diplomatic corps.
“These are trades that can be learned, we are not interchangeable“, emphasizes the MEP. “A diplomat wouldn’t make a good deputy director at the Ministry of Agriculture, that’s not true“, she says. “Not anyone can be consul in Kurdistan today“, she adds, by way of example.
War in Ukraine: an embargo on Russian oil is “indispensable”
Nathalie Loiseau estimated ‘”essential“that the European Union put in place an embargo on Russian oil.”Every day, we Europeans finance Vladimir Putin’s war to the tune of 800 million euros, it has to stop“, wishes the former minister in charge of European affairs who traveled to Boutcha, Ukraine, to observe the atrocities committed by Russian troops.
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