Catégorie Medias

“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 […]

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, […]

« WTO reform is now on the table »

Invited on CNBC, Pascal Lamy, president emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute and former WTO director, discussed international trade and current commercial restrictions between China and the United States. He argues the WTO needs urgent reforms and should prepare for life without the U.S. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/trump-is-trying-to-de-globalize-the-chinese-and-us-economies-former-wto-chief-says.html  

Donald Trump’s trade policy, trade relations with China and the Brexit deal

Pascal Lamy, president emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute and former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), was invited on « Paris Direct » on France 24. He questioned Donald Trump’s strategy regarding international trade policy : deglobalisation or disruptive stratagem ? Is his approach to China valid ? Concerning Brexit, this former European commissioner is […]