Laura Laplaud
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10:16 a.m., May 21, 2022
Between the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine, the government must be transparent about the state of the country and its burning issues, insisted Antoine Foucher, president of Quintet Conseil, former chief of staff of the ex-minister du Travail Muriel Pénicaud, guest of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach this Saturday.
Should Elisabeth Borne tell the painful truth? For Antoine Foucher, president of Quintet Conseil, former chief of staff of the former Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud, the Prime Minister must “tell the truth” even if “she is unpleasant to hear”. “Typically, the energy transition cannot be done with maintaining purchasing power,” he said on Europe 1 / CNews on Saturday.
“We don’t live in a world of care bears”
“What makes a lot of people drop out and no longer listen to what politicians say is that they feel like they have been told cracks for years,” argued the author of The post-Covid world. “The only way in my opinion to capture attention again is to tell the truth, even if that truth is very unpleasant to hear.”
France needs to become “a national and European power” again, judged Antoine Foucher. “We don’t live in a world of care bears,” he said. But being an independent nation “costs money”. “We will have to spend more money on our national defense, for the energy transition, to ensure our independence and therefore this money, we will have to take it somewhere.”
The Russian invasion in Ukraine has proven to be a threat to the rest of the world. “We have to manage to take back control of our destiny at national and European level. That means agreeing to put the general interest again before a certain number of particular interests”, he declared.