Catégorie Globalisation

Foreword to in search of Europeans: The road of identity and myth

Perhaps we at the Jacques Delors Institute, which at the time was called “Notre Europe”, had realised earlier than others that the dream of the founding fathers of the 1950s would not come true, at least not as they had envisaged it. They had placed too much hope on alchemy, as if the leaden process of economic integration based […]

CCTV – WTO in Global Trade

Welcome to Dialogue, in Beijing, China joined the WTO in 2001, which was one of the major event since its establishment. However the WTO is now facing challenges concerning its effectiveness and influence in global trade. So what role will the organization will continue to play in the context of free trade agreements? How should […]

Les Echos – Pascal Lamy : « Le protectionnisme ne protège plus »

Quel regard portez-vous sur la montée en puissance des partis populistes dans plusieurs pays européens ? Cela n’a rien de surprenant quand on connaît l’histoire de l’Europe depuis un siècle et demi. La crise économique a fait beaucoup de mal économiquement et socialement un peu partout sur le continent.

Pèlerin – Bientôt la fin de la mondialisation ?

LA DÉMONDIALISATION ? Une vue de l’esprit ! Certes, les échanges commerciaux croissent moins vite que le produit intérieur brut (PIB) mondial, mais ils ne régressent pas. Le bilan de la mondialisation est globalement positif.

Paris Match – Le commerce mondial est-il en panne?

Alors que Donald Trump va mener une politique protectionniste et que les traités commerciaux font débat en Europe, DataMatch dresse le bilan des échanges de marchandises dans le monde.

Caixin media – Ex WTO Chief Says Trump’s Protectionist Talk Mostly Just That

Ex-WTO Chief Says Trump’s Protectionist Talk Mostly Just That U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s protectionism rhetoric is unlikely to escalate into concrete action because it will harm the U.S. economy “first and foremost,” said Pascal Lamy, the former director-general of the World Trade Organization, here on Saturday at the Caixin Summit.  Read more