His successor, Guersent said, should \u201cresist all the self-serving nonsense of the CEOs of large firms when they whisper to the ears of prime ministers,\u201d that, for example, they would be \u201ca lot more competitive with a lot less competition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next for the longtime official? Traveling and quality time with family, he said. His wife has also recently retired, and his third child has just left for university.<\/p>\n
Guersent said he\u2019s firmly resisted any (likely sizable) offers for consultancy work. \u201cI have refused any paid job \u2026 and any kind of academic recurrent commitments because I want to have at least a year or two where I\u2019m free to do whatever I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
No books are on the horizon, the official said, except a \u201cvery, very dry treaty on competition law\u201d\u00a0that he will work on with his \u201cfriend,\u201d Jonathan Faull, a former British senior Commission official, now a consultant at Brunswick, and Ali Nikpay, a professor at Oxford and lawyer at international firm Gibson Dunn. \u00a0<\/p>\n
While travels are on the agenda, he won\u2019t stay away from France \u2014\u00a0where he famously boasts tomato-growing ambitions \u2014\u00a0or the EU capital for too long.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 32 years, most of our friends are in Brussels.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His successor, Guersent said, should \u201cresist all the self-serving nonsense of the CEOs of large firms when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3444,29,1442,12346,24599,6641,2000,299,5187,36,115061,2441,14614,12073,48,1199,7162],"class_list":{"0":"post-316040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-career","10":"tag-competition","11":"tag-competition-rules","12":"tag-competition-antitrust","13":"tag-competitiveness","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-jonathan-faull","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-michel-barnier","21":"tag-olivier-guersent","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-services","24":"tag-teresa-ribera"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}