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Roland Lescure Returns as France Finance Minister in Macron Push

By Drooid · Oct 6, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC · How we work

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Roland Lescure left a Canadian banking job to become France’s finance minister in President Emmanuel Macron’s economic revolution.
He returned to France to curb far-right growth and promote a pro-European, business-friendly environment.
Lescure said he was 50 and in a mid-life crisis when he changed careers.
Macron will step down next year, likely ending the political movement Lescure joined.
The economic revolution has not changed France’s ambivalent relationship with capitalism.

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Roland Lescure left a Canadian banking job to become France’s finance minister in President Emmanuel Macron’s economic revolution.
He returned to France to curb far-right growth and promote a pro-European, business-friendly environment.
Lescure said he was 50 and in a mid-life crisis when he changed careers.
Macron will step down next year, likely ending the political movement Lescure joined.
The economic revolution has not changed France’s ambivalent relationship with capitalism.