Catégorie Trade
ETUI Monthly Forum in collaboration with the Centre for EU Studies at Ghent University – What social face of the new European Union trade agreements?
This lunch debate aimed to assess the social commitment of the new generation of European Union trade agreements. The event brought together practitioners, representatives of civil society and scholars who discussed three interrelated issues concerning the social content of recent EU trade agreements:(i) the cooperative nature of the EU approach, (ii) the involvement of civil society in […]
CNN – Former WTO Head: Brexit would ‘severely hurt’ UK producers
Pascal Lamy, who led the World Trade Organization for nearly a decade, separates fact from fiction on how trade would be affected by the UK leaving the EU.
Magazine Forces – La montée du protectionnisme
Les déchirements politiques sur le thème du libre-échange dominent l’actualité économique. Pas une semaine sans relents cycliques du protectionnisme et du repli sur soi associés au retour des nationalismes. Sur fond d’invitation référendaire sur un éventuel Brexit qui divise les Britanniques et de rendez-vous électoraux imminents pour plusieurs pays concernés, la ratification de ces grands […]
BBC Newsnight – How will UK trade with EU post-Brexit? Pascal Lamy, Andrea Leadsom discuss
What kind of trade arrangements could the UK negotiate with the European Union after leaving? Newsnight’s James O’Brien was joined by former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy, and Vote Leave’s Andrea Leadsom to discuss. Newsnight is the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs TV programme – with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust […]
Monumenta debates – Who is going to wear the Emperor’s hat?
Jean de Loisy, director of the Palais de Tokyo curator of the exhibition Monumenta 2016. Huang Yong Ping talked to Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 2005 to 2013, President Emeritus of the Institut Jacques Delors, and currently inter-ministerial representative for the French bid to host the Universal Exhibition in 2025.
Financial Times – What Brexit means for trade
As President Barack Obama has made clear, the debate about the UK’s membership of the EU largely comes down to trade.
