But some MEPs are threatening to make trouble for Pascal Lamy at his confirmation hearings, writes Guy de Jonquières

None of last week’s appointments to the new European Commission has aroused more surprise, fascination or suspicion than the award of the international trade portfolio to Pascal Lamy of France.

To economics liberals, and many of the European Union’s trading partners, putting a Frenchman in charge of trade policy is troubling portent, given France’s reputation as champion of protectionist EU policies, above all in agriculture.

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