This is how we start...

(BRUSSELS2) Pierre Moscovici was at the European Commission today. No, it is not a reconnaissance visit or a taking possession of the premises.

Let's see a growth report!

He's only there for one thing, as a diplomat anxious to steer me in the right direction told me, feeling that I was going to get lost in overly complex calculations. He was commissioned to write a major report on behalf of the French government? The subject ? “the contribution of European policies to growth and employment (in Europe and in France) and the way in which economic agents (companies) can appropriate these policies”. Do not see any malice there, nor any connection with the future portfolio that he could have here or elsewhere...

Registered, badged

Moreover, the former Minister for the Economy and Finance registered, like everyone else, on the Commission's visitor register (see photo), then receiving his little sticker badge, marked "V" which then allows access to the most sumptuous floors (well, not too much either...) and which blushes or blushes when the day's date is exceeded. Miracle of technology. Everyone starts like that. Visitors, journalists, future curators...

Coincidence!

Not far from there, which we cannot see (in the photo), was Olivier Bailly (a close friend of Mosco, now sherpa of the Commission at the General Secretariat) as well as a string of former and Commission alumni, invited by Commission President José-Manuel Barroso for the publication of the second volume in the history of the European Commission. Maybe in 20 years, Pierre Moscovici will be of this kind of meetings...

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

NB: last precision, taking the photo at this place is normally prohibited because we are in a secure enclosure. Yes Yes ! A security guard told me so. And in front, my incredulous look confirmed it to me. Of course, there are big secrets to protect. And that the Commission knows how to do it... Read also: Big leak at the European Commission