Catégorie Speeches

Rentrée inaugurale de l’École d’affaires publiques de Sciences Po – Bien commun et globalisation

Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Merci à Fréderic Mion et à Yann Algan pour leur invitation à célébrer la naissance de l’École d’affaires publiques de Sciences Po. En réfléchissant à la manière d’introduire notre discussion, je me suis remémoré des temps anciens où j’étais assis à votre place. Il y a 45 ans. Je […]

Speech at ENA, Rabat – Africa’s place in the New World of Trade

For the moment, Africa’s role in world trade remains modest. While the continent hosts 15 percent of the global population, it only represents 3 percent of the world’s total commerce.

Global Tax and Trade Policy

International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) organized the inaugural Frenzel Memorial Lecture on 17 April, at the Metropolitan Club, Washington DC. The ITIC board decided to hold the lecture in memory of Congressman Bill Frenzel, former ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and founder Chairman of the ITIC. 

International Bar Association Conference – Challenges of corporate litigation in a global economy

Many thanks for your invitation to deliver a few remarks tonight on the topic of your conference this year. I will start with a case which had to be adjudicated by the WTO dispute settlement before I left the DG position late 2013. The famous EU/Canada/Norway dispute about EU measures prohibiting the importation and marketing of […]

Conférence – Quelles règles pour le commerce mondial ?

C’est devant un public varié (économistes et juristes, étudiants et professeurs) que Pascal Lamy a proposé, le lundi 13 avril 2015 dans un amphithéâtre Duguit comble, sa vision sur l’évolution des règles du commerce mondial.

The Jan Tumlir Lecture – The New World of Trade

BRUSSELS — We are transitioning from an old world of trade to a new world, where trade opening has become a very different game of great consequence for the future. The old world of trade was a world where production systems were national and where obstacles to trade were about protecting domestic producers from foreign […]