European elections 2024: France's far right shows off star turn Fabrice Leggeri

[RandySF]

Ahead of next month's elections to the European Parliament, France's far-right National Rally is boasting a star new recruit.
Until two years ago, Fabrice Leggeri was executive-director of the European Union's border agency Frontex.

For the National Rally (RN), already riding high in the opinion polls, the arrival of such an important figure is a major coup.

Mr Leggeri, 56, was schooled to be part of France's administrative elite.

Before taking over at Frontex in 2015, he held posts in the interior, defence and foreign ministries.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68931168

[DFW]

1. Administrative elite

Ugh. Just what Europe does NOT need: more career bureaucrats in decision-making positions of authority.

[OnDoutside]

2. There's a college in France to teach/prepare civil servants/chief execs

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_national_du_service_public#:~:text=The%20Institut%20national%20du%20service,%C3%A9cole%20based%20in%20Strasbourg%2C%20France.|

The Institut national du service public (INSP; English: National Institute of Public Service) is a grande école based in Strasbourg, France. It is dedicated to the recruitment, initial training and continuing training of senior executives and civil servants of the state. It was created on 1 January 2022 to replace the École nationale d'administration (ENA), which was abolished on 31 December 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron.[2]

The INSP is seated in Strasbourg and has offices in Paris. Its establishment is part of the top management reforms introduced by President Macron aiming at achieving a more efficient, inclusive and attractive top administration. However, its creation has faced criticisms from many French civil servants, including Macron's former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.[3][4]

The institute is responsible for providing senior state executives with initial and continuing training based on new foundations. It oversees a common core program for public service schools that train senior executives from all three sectors of the public service and the administration of justice, to ensure common references, improve public action and then better serve French citizens.

[DFW]

3. I.e. a school for bureaucrats

They have such places in Germany, too.

They train high powered, self-important paper pushers with no experience or training out there in the real world, and they have life careers making up rules and ways to force them on people who are never consulted over whether they make any sense or have any real world practicality.

My wife was a social worker in Germany for decades, and had to deal with these people every day. My two offices in Paris have the same frustrations. These people, once installed, cannot be fired, only promoted, and their main reasons for being are advancement and self-perpetuation. Competence is not considered an asset, and initiative is considered to lie somewhere between obscenity and blasphemy.