Madam, – I read with interest Gerald Flynn’s strictures against pantouflage, literally “putting on the slippers”, the French term for the move to lucrative private sector employment by senior civil servants on retirement (Innovation Extra, July 27th). The Japanese term for the same phenomenon, amakudari, translates as “the descent from heaven”. – Yours, etc,
COLIN SCOTT,
Professor of EU regulation and governance,
UCD school of law,
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