At the European Parliament, from which he left yesterday to join the Quai d’Orsay, Stéphane Séjourné expected instructions from Paris on all issues. His wait-and-see attitude and lack of courage may have annoyed observers and elected representatives alike. Yesterday, Stéphane Séjourné took up his post as Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs in the government formed by his former partner, Gabriel Attal. The French press is not mistaken when it presents him as a loyal servant of Emmanuel Macron. Indeed, he held this role, religiously, in the European Parliament for almost five years. Indeed, Stéphane Séjourné was known to wait for the Elysian bubbles in order to act on the slightest tense issue, sometimes at the risk of appearing servile and even pusillanimous. Above all, when these presidential injunctions failed to arrive, he ran the risk of giving…
