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May 29 11 tweets 3 min read
Fait inhabituel: les diplomates français, qui, en temps normal, célèbrent la France et défendent ses intérêts, sont en colère et appellent à la grève le 2 juin. Je les comprends et je les soutiens. 🧵⬇️🇫🇷 lemonde.fr/idees/article/…
En cause: la réforme de la haute fonction publique qui entraîne la suppression du corps diplomatique. En gros, plus de spécificité du Quai d'Orsay, hauts diplomates deviennent administrateurs d'état. 2/ lemonde.fr/international/…
Cela veut dire qu'aux plus hauts postes (ex: ambassadeur) pourront être nommés d'autres administrateurs venant d'autres ministères. La conception de diplomate comme un métier spécifique vient d'être cassée. 3/
Sur Twitter, des diplos en colère racontent leur parcours avec le hashtag #diplo2metier. Ils parlent des langues rares, ou difficiles. Ils mettent en avant leur diversité, leur engagement. Diplomate s'apprend sur le terrain, dans des postes difficiles, au contact de l'étranger.
La diversité au Quai existe déjà: de nombreux experts extérieurs, spécialistes de sujets de grande technicité (climat, cyber) ou avec un parcours recherche, entreprise ou autre, viennent souvent renforcer les directions, les délégations, les ambassades. J'en ai fait partie. 4/
Au MAE et à l'étranger j'ai connu des diplomates de grande qualité, qu'ils soient secrétaires des affaires étrangères, conseillers ou issus de l'ENA. Dédiés, passionnés, engagés. J'en ai retiré un immense respect pour ce métier, très loin des clichés. 5/
Leur point commun est d'avoir fait de nombreux postes, en centrale comme à l'étranger, dans de nombreux services. Non pas tous dans tous les endroits, mais chacun développe ainsi son expertise, son expérience, une petite touche qui les rend unique. 6/
En fin de carrière, cela donne des directeurs, ambassadeur, consuls, chefs de délégation, chargés de mission, qui connaissent un peu de tout, et bcp de qlq chose: l'Europe, l'humanitaire, l'onusien, le consulaire, la culture, le développement ou le stratégique, ... 7/
Cela donne surtout un corps diplomatique exceptionnel (quoique sous financé) qui a fait de la France une puissance mondiale, boxant bien au-dessus de sa catégorie. 8/
La France peut se vanter de sa capacité d'action militaire, de son rayonnement touristique, de sa seconde zone économique exclusive au monde, etc. Mais ceux qui vantent les mérites de la France sont en fait un de ses atouts maîtres. 9/
Le reste du monde nous envie ce corps diplomatique si efficace, qui défend avec talent les intérêts français et européens. La France, pour rester un grand pays, doit le renforcer, pas le supprimer. [end]

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Jan 8
Happy New Year! This week we take a look at shifting political dynamics in France under Omicron. [Who would have predicted that COVID would become, once again, a central feature of French politics?] A #FrenchFriday thread with @BlochAgneska. 1/17
Up until Omicron, @EmmanuelMacron had mostly succeeded in steering the boat through the storm -- the digital health pass by & large adopted. His critics remained focused on early stumbles (mask shortages) while Le Pen rode anti-COVID pass tide with her slogan “Libertés chéries”2/
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Je suis fière de participer au lancement de @LeRubicon 👏, nouvelle plateforme francophone de débat sur les affaires internationales et de sécurité, avec un article qui revient sur la crise AUKUS.
En un mot : attention !
En plusieurs mots : lire le papier ou le thread ⬇️
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Deux mois après AUKUS - « rupture majeure de confiance » décriée par la France - les relations FR-US semblent réparées. Déclaration jointe lançant des initiatives, visites de haut niveau y compris VP Harris, et récemment excellente coordination transatlantique sur la Russie.
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1- fruit d’un travail diplomatique approfondi à Washington, mené depuis près de 20 ans suite à la crise FR-US sur l’Irak ;
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He. Did. Not.
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