Barnier served twice as a commissioner, but his management of the Brexit negotiations has been with the aid of some distance his most high-profile submit in Brussels. at the partitions of his office dangle pictures of the 2 figures who've had the best effect on him: Charles de Gaulle and Robert Schuman, the latter French baby-kisser each an architect of NATO and a founding father of the eu Union itself. Barnier himself is idea by using many to be a critical destiny candidate for the presidency of the eu commission.