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| Formation | 2007 |
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| Type | Public PolicyThink Tank |
| Website | www.lesgracques.fr |
TheGracques, named after theGracchi brothers, are aFrenchSocial liberalthink-tank.
During theFrench presidential election of 2007, a group of former high-ranking civil servants published an open letter titledMerci, François ! ("Thank you, François!"), and signed "Les Gracques", inLe Point of 22 March 2007.[1] The manifesto praisedFrançois Bayrou, advocated aSocial democrat approach for theSocialist Party, and an alignment of the French political spectrum with that of the "great nations of Europe and Northern America", meaning an alliance between the Left and the Centre against the Right-wing.
After the election, the signatories and their sympathisers founded a thinktank, as aVoluntary association (association loi de 1901), and published a formal manifesto.[2]
The Gracques notably define themselves asdemocratic,liberal,desegregationist, pro-labour, favourable towardstate regulation of the economy, favourable towardwealth redistribution, pro-ecology,pro-European, andinternationalist.
The original members have been rumoured to includeJean-Pierre Jouyet,Denis Olivennes,Roger Godino,Matthieu Pigasse,Ariane Obolensky,Bernard Spitz,Guillaume Hannezo,François Villeroy de Galhau,Gilles de Margerie. As of late 2008, the association claims about 770 members. The organisation's Summer Universities in 2007 and 2008 have featured such speakers asMichel Rocard,Anthony Giddens,Walter Veltroni,Peter Mandelson andFrançois Chérèque.
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