Archives Mensuelles: octobre 2018

“Tenemos que proteger más al individuo y menos el empleo”

At the Casa Arabe de Madrid, in collaboration with the Fundacion Felipe Gonzalez, Pascal Lamy presented his report Las personas y el planeta como prioridad: una nueva agenda para el proceso global, a 15 point plan to identify progressist solutions to socio-economic problems. Adressing El Pais, he argued for a reajustement of governing systems and […]

Pascal Lamy at the 12th World Trade Promotion Organizations Conference in Paris

Pascal Lamy intervened at the 12th World Trade Promotion Organizations Conference on « Trade and Investment Ecosystems: Delivering for Growth » with a focus on how an ecosystem approach could add value for small businesses and the implications this approach would have for the future direction of TIPOs. https://bit.ly/Tb6s8H

Italy, Europe’s new challenge ?

Pascal Lamy was invited on France Culture’s morning show to comment current Italian politics, the rise of populism and the italo-european budgetary dispute. https://www.franceculture.fr/player/export-reecouter?content=ff564e4e-24da-4ff4-afff-723303c6e58c

“The internal market is the top league. The WTO is the bottom.”

For Pascal Lamy, President emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute, speaking at the Peter Sutherland Memorial Lecture at LSE, Brexit is like a Premier League side looking to be relegated. The Guardian presents this much discussed analogy.  https://bit.ly/2q67xkl

The debate held at the Casa Arabe in Madrid on the challenges faced by progressist ideas

Pascal Lamy, President emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute and former director general of the WTO, Josep Borrell, Spanish minister of foreign affairs and Felipe Gonzalez, former President of the Spanish government, debated in the Casa Arabe de Madrid. This encounter, co-organised by the Fundacion Felipe Gonzalez and the Fundación Europea para los Estudios Progresistas, […]

A rules based, open, globalisation is still worth fighting for

« At a time when globalisation is under attack, Pascal Lamy exposes why Peter Sutherland was, and still is, right in promoting a rules based open international system. »