These bankers that Brexit brought back to France<

En ce matin frais d’octobre, les bruits de pas résonnent dans la propriété de style Napoléon III, nichée dans une coulée verte du Vésinet, à l’ouest de Paris. Les salons à moulures dorées sont vides : Pierre Blanchet vient de s’y réinstaller en famille après six années passées à Londres, et les meubles ne sont pas encore arrivés. L’aventure anglo-saxonne a tourné court pour cause de Brexit.

It is with a few disillusions on the British neighbor that this BCBG banker, beige sweater, Jean and Moccasins, finds France earlier than expected."Before the referendum, we did not have the goal of returning, we didn't even think about it," he said.London, hectic and bubbling, dominant financial place on the planet, was a formidable springboard for his career.Employee of the Sino-British banking giant HSBC, first in France, he sees his post transferred from the other side of the English Channel in 2013."It's always easier to progress in a box when you are at the headquarters: central functions and people who make the decisions are in London," he said.

But on June 23, 2016, the British voted against the maintenance of the United Kingdom in the European Union (EU).The border closes.

"Brexit is a Sartrian mechanism: you are forced to make a choice.For most of our couples of binational friends, those who did not have the nationality made the step to take a British passport when they would never have done it if there had not been Brexit.For us, staying in London meant passing an exam, an interview, it's still a hell of a thing ... We considered it.But do I want to become the subject of the queen?It's not simple.»Pierre Blanchet Potasse European law.The family wonders if the children will have, if they remain, the same easy access to the English university as in the past, what will be their rights to the health system, and at what price.The air of time changes.

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— Mo Kendall Tue Apr 01 07:41:54 +0000 2014

"In London, a cosmopolitan city, Europeans did not feel like being foreigners, we were just in a nice, exotic," British "universe.But the day after the vote, that day, you become a foreigner, as you have never been.»»

« Tout d’un coup, l’ambiance change»»

The summer following the referendum, in the districts of the capital where the French or Italian community is particularly important, hostile words are released.

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