The beginnings were, however arduous. Just arrived at Bercy in 2005, Foreign Trade Christine Lagarde addresses a French taboo: the Labor Code. "Complicated, heavy, rather inflexible. Emotion, call to order the Matignon. After the election of Nicolas Sarkozy and his rise in rank to the Economy, the Minister referred to a "austerity plan" against the state of public finances. Whirlpool, public disavowal of the Elysee. A little later, faced with soaring oil prices, it advises the French to put the bike …. By Christine Lagarde, the French may have first caught his gaffes and his unwavering optimism about the economy. Two and a half years after his appointment to the Ministry of Economy, the most sacred here, however, European finance ministers … Meanwhile, the economic crisis has been there. And made the French minister "a star in the world of finance. Nothing less.And this is not his entourage, who devotes a sincere admiration, who says it. No, it's very Anglo-Saxon Financial Times, publishing its annual list Tuesday of Ministers of the euro area. "No other minister of Finance of a major economy in the world is reached through this years test in such a form" and did so involved "at the international level regarding the regulation and the future banking sector, "said the influential FT.
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