COVERSTORY
The Belgian artist René Magritte once famously inscribed the phrase “this is not a pipe” directly below an illustration of a pipe. His painting, The Treason of Images, aims to show that art is merely representation, not the real thing. So while Étienne Schneider modestly presents himself as a sort of anti-minister, just trying to do his best with the brief chance he’s been given, and swears he’s not really worried about getting himself re-appointed after next year’s general election, he is perhaps one of the canniest operators in the cabinet. After just over one year in office, and with a year and a half to go on his mandate, Delano sits down with the man who keeps the economy running and runs for the economy. Text by Aaron Grunwald Photography by Julien Becker
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february 2013
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