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French Billionaire Stérin Tells Senate He Funds Conservative Campaign

Stérin said his Pericles organization funds initiatives to push free-market and conservative ideas into power and denied wrongdoing before lawmakers.

  • French billionaire Pierre-Edouard Sterin revealed his right-leaning views to lawmakers in a public hearing, seeking to change laws to disinherit his children and give his fortune to charity to promote conservative causes.
  • Sterin said he aims to fight 'socialism, wokism, Islamism, immigration' and is 'to the right of the far right' on immigration, favoring 'the re-migration of foreign criminals, undocumented migrants or those unemployed for more than 12 months.'
  • Describing himself as a 'tax exile of the François Hollande generation,' Sterin hopes his operation will 'bring free-market, conservative right‑wing ideas to power in France.
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French businessman Pierre-Édouard Stérin, founder of the Smartbox gift boxes and one of the country's greatest fortunes, has opened a new front of debate in France by asking to change the successor law to exclude his five children from their inheritance and donate the whole of their heritage.Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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French billionaire Pierre-Edouard Sterin wants to decide for himself what will become of his fortune after death. Most recently, he had supported rights in his home country.

·Düsseldorf, Germany
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