Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service will not be able to process files related to Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, and its subsidiaries, according to information from our colleagues at franceinfo.
A decree at the heart of this decision
The wife of Stanislas Guerini, works within Google Cloud France, a subsidiary of the Web giant and this function places the new minister at the heart of decree n ° 59-178 of January 22, 1959 relating to the attributions of ministers.
According to this decree, “the minister who considers himself to be in a situation of conflict of interest informs the Prime Minister in writing, specifying the content of the questions for which he considers that he should not exercise his powers”.
By virtue of this text, the Minister “abstains from giving instructions to the administrations placed under his authority or at his disposal, which receive their instructions directly from the Prime Minister”.
Elisabeth Borne at the helm
It is therefore the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who will manage the files concerning the parent company of Google or even “the cloud hosting of state data”, according to information from the Parisian.
In 2018, for example, Françoise Nyssen, publisher then appointed Minister of Culture, had her powers withdrawn by the Prime Minister at the time, Edouard Philippe, concerning "the supervision of the National Book Center" and "the economic regulation of the literary publishing sector", as well as the right to intervene in any file involving "the company + Actes Sud +".
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