Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

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The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs ( French Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères ) is the Foreign Ministry of the French Republic . It is also called the Quai d'Orsay after its seat on the Quai d'Orsay , a quay along the Seine in Paris . It has been headed by Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian since May 17, 2017 .

history

The ministry has a long tradition that goes back to the Ancien Régime . In 1547 the first Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Claude de L'Aubespine , was appointed.

From 1981 to 1986 (under Mitterrand) the Ministry was called Ministère des Relations extérieures - to show that foreign countries are not “foreign” to the government.

task

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes the 166 embassies in sovereign states and international organizations , which regularly inform the government, as well as the consulates .

External security , economic relations , foreign cultural policy (for example the French cultural organizations such as the Institut français ) are important tasks.

structure

There has been a State Secretary for European Affairs since 1950 and a State Secretary for Francophonie since 1959 .

The house has a budget of 4.6 billion euros (2009) and employs 14,800 people.

literature

  • Wichard Wolke: France's foreign policy from de Gaulle to Mitterrand [1 ed.], VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1987.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Minister, the State Secretaries. Accessed June 21, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Information on the Ministry's website , accessed on August 2, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '44.1 "  N , 2 ° 18' 57.7"  E