A name crossing state lines to turn the page on storms at Sciences Po? According to information from WorldFormer Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, 57, has expressed his interest in running the prestigious school on rue Saint-Guillaume in Paris in recent weeks. “It showed up like other high-quality names”we are confirming at Sciences Po, while the official application process is due to start in two weeks.
A foreign profile, which, however, would have no parallel at the head of the free school born in 1871 to restore the French elite. And whose leadership since the 90s of the 20th century has fallen into enarchs experienced in the mysteries of the state. “There is nothing in the statutes to the contrary”we note within an institution that trains battalions of senior civil servants but has 50% foreign students, primarily from the United States, Germany or Italy.
The Tuscan who dreamed aloud about “European Political Union” in fact, he spent part of his childhood in Strasbourg, where his father taught mathematics. The former Italian parliamentarian, twice minister – for European affairs, then for industry and foreign trade –, member of the European Parliament, chaired the Italian Council of Ministers ten years ago before being ousted by his greatest enemy, Matteo Renzi.
“Choice of the Heart”
At the head of the Paris-based Jacques Delors Institute, Enrico Letta is preparing to tour Europe and the United States to promote his message. “Much more than the market” (much more than a market) aimed at modernizing the single European market. A message he has just presented to the Heads of State and Government in Brussels, this Thursday 18 April, as well as to a number of media on the continent. For “change scale” facing the United States or China and asking Europe 27 to finance its ecological transition “private and public funds” and creates a fifth freedom for “research, innovation and education”.
Enrico Letta knows rue Saint-Guillaume well, having chaired Sciences Po’s School of International Relations (known as “PSIA”) for six years outside Rome (2014-2021). Paris School of International Relations). The dean, with the discreet appearance of a technocrat, aimed to impress “the greatest leaders in the world” and in the amphitheatres they confessed the spirit “creativity”like Mario Draghi flooding Europe with banknotes to save the Eurozone. “Sciences Po was one of the smartest decisions of my life”and even “choice of the heart”said Letta as she left it to return to head the Democratic Party in March 2021.
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