Raymond Barre

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Raymond Octave Joseph Bars , born the April 12th 1924 with Saint-Denis (Réunion) and deceased the August 25th 2007 with Paris (military hospital of the Valley-of-Grace), was a economist and Politician French. He was vice-president of the European commission in the Commission Rey and the Commission Malfatti, Prime Minister of France of 1976 with 1981, under the presidency of Valery Giscard d'Estaing and mayor of Lyon of 1995 to 2001.

Biography

Childhood and youth

The Barre family is installed with Saint-Denis-of-The-Meeting since 1843. Except for a few months with Paris in 1934, it passes its childhood on its native island of the Réunion in imposing a creole Case of Saint-Denis formerly inhabited by the poet Leon Dierx, a villa now called Déramond-Bars.

There, it is found initially in the same nursery school as Raymond Bourgine, the school of the Immaculate Conception, before being provided education for with the Lycée Leconte de Lisle at the sides of Paul and Jacques Vergès). They have two wire: Olivier and Nicolas.

Of 1959 with 1962, Raymond Barre is Principal private secretary of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, Minister of Industry.

European career

In 1967, it is named vice-president of the European commission, person in charge of the Economic affairs and financial, station which it will occupy until in 1973, obliging it during its functions to engage ten times the responsibility for its government in front of the National Assembly and supports end of the Jacques Chirac lips vis-a-vis Mitterrand.

Its funerals are celebrated by the Archevêque of Paris, Mgr André Vingttrois, the August 29th 2007 in the vault of the Valley-of-Grace, in the presence of many personalities of which the president of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy. He is then buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse.

Political offices

Decorations

d´Ottawa (Canada)
Barcelona (Spain)
Mainz (Germany)
Budapest (Hungary)
Mons-Hainaut (Belgium)
Keiō in Tokyo (Japan)
Sciences Po
  • Price Europe 1979

Controversies

Charge of Anti-semitism

October 3rd, 1980, following the attack anti-semite of the street Copernic, Raymond Barre, then Prime Minister, shocks the opinion while declaring awkwardly on TF1: “ This odious attack which wanted to strike the Jews being in this synagog and which struck of the innocent French who crossed the street Copernic ”. Its remarks of October 8th, 1980 to the National Assembly, ensuring her “Jewish compatriots” of the “sympathy of the whole of the nation”, will not erase Malayan not left it by its preceding sentence.

February 20th, 2007, during an interview on France Culture diffused on March 1st, 2007, it reconsiders this business: It was of the French who circulated in the street and who are mown because one wants to make jump a synagog. Then, those which wanted to be caught some to the Jews, they could have made jump the synagog and the Jews. But at all, they make a blind attack and has there three French, nonJewish, it is a reality, not Jews. And that does not want to say that the Jews, them are not French . It estimates that this business was “ a campaign made by the Lobby Jewish related to the left ”, affirming to consider “ that the Jewish lobby - not only in what concerns to me - is able to assemble operations which are unworthy and I make a point of saying it publicly. ”

In the same interview, Raymond Barre defends her former minister Maurice Papon, deceased three days front, “ a Scapegoat ” according to him. He declares that “ Papon was a senior civil servant of the State which especially paid for Charonne. The remainder is an alibi. ” According to Raymond Barre, for the French civils servant, it was necessary for all “ to make function France ”, the collaboration of State under Vichy was not a reason sufficient to resign: “ One resigns when it is really about a major national interest. ”; “ they tried after a fashion to limit this drama which was the persecution of the Jews ”. It estimates moreover that Bruno Gollnisch, appointed European FN, of which it blames the remarks (the frontist had just been condemned for Négationnisme), is in addition “ a good city council man, a man well ”

This interview was highly criticized by the CRIF, which was declared “scandalized” and by Claude Lanzmann, which shows Raymond Barre of Antisémitisme. This last answers these critics the same day, on RTL, in the emission “the Famous persons”: “There is one clicks which since 1979 continues me to reveal me anti-semite. ”

These declarations are condemned in the press, by several intellectuals and associations, as well as the majority of the political parties. The 11 March 2007, in a maintenance with the daily newspaper Parisian the , Raymond Barre declares “ made indignant and saddened ” by the charges of anti-semitism of which it is the object. Informant that “ the anti-semitism and racism are contrary with be personal convictions ”, it denounces a “ Jewish lobby of left ” which would bait against him “ since more than thirty years ”.

Others

As from 2001, he was member of the Academy of Science morals and political, with the Institut of France.

He was president of the Institut Aspen France of 1994 to 2004 and was the honorary president until his death.

He was honorary also member of the Club of Rome.

Raymond Barre was also member of the international committee of sponsorship of the review American Politique .

The president of the University of the Meeting, Serge Svizzero, proposed to him to change the name of the university into his honor. The interested party would have declared that it “is not opposed there on the principle” considering his origins and attachments with the Meeting. Some were surprised by this decision because in 1979, then Prime Minister, he had refused that the university center of the Meeting, attached to the Université of Aix-Marseilles, becomes a true university. Also can one be astonished by coherence to change the name of this university into University “Raymond Barre” (the university of the Meeting became university in 1982).

He was godfather of EICD 3A in Lyon in 1997.

He declared, in 2000, to have smoked of the Opium in his youth without there to have taken much pleasure.

Certain political commentators sometimes reproached him for regarding the National Assembly as a “room”, with the clean direction of the term, and for sleeping there most of the time.

Works

  • the Period in the economic analysis - an approach being studied of time , SEDEIS, 1950.
  • Treated Political Economy , THEMIS economy with PUF, first edition in 1959, republished 15 times since, translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic.
  • Economic development: Analyzes and Political , 1958.
  • the man is an economic animal , 1973.
  • a policy for the future , 1981.
  • Which do I know? Reduction of inflation , 1983.
  • Reflections for tomorrow , 1984, Plural,
  • With the turning of the century , 1988.
  • Questions of confidence , 1988, Flammarion.
  • a taste of freedom , 2000
  • Talks , 2001
  • the Experiment of the capacity , conversations with Jean Bothorel, 2007, Beech,

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