Catégorie Medias

Institutional Investor – Globalization backlash is nowhere to be seen in financial markets

The financiers’ and trade wonks’ outlooks overlap at one critical point: We live in a world that is becoming irresistibly more interconnected while policy decisions remain intransigently national.

Handelsblatt – Die Standards müssen steigen

Der frühere Chef der Welthandels – organisation kritisiert die Kommu – nikation des TTIP-Abkommens durch die EU-Kommission. Read more

BBC News – Carney: This time it’s personal

When Mr Carney took office in 2013, the notion that Britain would be beginning the difficult process of negotiating its way out of the European Union three years later (a process described by the former head of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, as something akin to « taking an egg out of omelette« ), was a […]

La Presse – Libre-échange : la fin des portes closes

Les derniers jours ont été si éprouvants pour les négociateurs de l’accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et le Canada qu’on peut se demander si ce traité sera le dernier du genre… ou le premier d’un nouveau genre.

Cayman Finance – Britain’s Brexit vote opens way for a regulatory rethink

In June, as the world well knows now, the people of Britain voted to leave the European Union. At least some of the popular animus toward the vote was a revulsion of regulatory harmonization. People were fed up with the European Commission’s one-size-fits-all approach toward matters as diverse as weights and measures, bank capital asset […]

BBC World Service – Pascal Lamy, the former director of WTO, on trade deals.

Is Globalisation in reverse? After more than 7 years of negotiations a free trade deal between the European Union and Canada now appears to be going ahead.