The Ecole Nationale d'Administration has for decades churned out presidents...
PARIS - The Ecole Nationale d’Administration has for decades churned out presidents, ambassadors and industry leaders but on Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron said he would abolish what has become a symbol of inequality in his drive for a fairer society.
“This is not about saying the ENA is a bad thing, quite the contrary. This is about ambitious reform, we need to build something that works better.” The postgraduate school was founded in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle to train a postwar administrative elite drawn from across all social classes. With time, however, it earned a reputation as out of touch and catering to privileged students from the upper social echelons and struggled to modernize its image.
The growing tendency for Enarques to move back and forth between the public and private sector has only deepened the public perception of a distant, incestuous old boy’s network.“The ENA has come to symbolize exactly that which so many French people loathe: elitism,” Alain Klarsfeld, a professor at the Toulouse Business School, wrote in a column in Le Monde.
“There are two types of Enarques: the top 15 and then the rest,” said historian Marc-Olivier Baruch, who studied at the ENA nearly 40 years ago. “The top 15 know they will be the bosses of the rest, and the rest know they will obey the 15.” Asked how far abolishing the ENA would appease yellow vest protesters, Baruch said: “They won’t give a damn.”
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