Catégorie Trade
Publication – Is trade multilateralism being threatened by regionalism?
Since the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947, the multilateral trading system has ranked as one of the shining successes of international cooperation. Recently, it was shown to have great resilience in containing protectionist pressures during the 2008 global financial and economic crisis. This was in marked contrast to […]
Queries – TTIP: a new initiative that should raise the bar in aligning consumer protection
Europe and the United States have everything to gain from TTIP as the initiative aims to further open up transatlantic trade. Yet there is still a need to reach agreement over that openness means in today’s climate.
World Policy Conference – Debate on Trade and Policy
Commercial affairs, in the broad sense of the term, have always been a central part of international relations and always interfered with security issues. In our day and age, as a result of globalization, economic exchanges have gone largely beyond commercial exchanges (services, capital flows, direct investments, etc.) and form a more and more tightly-meshed […]
Il Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF) -Civilizzare la Globalizzazione, un’ambizione per l’Europa
Pascal Lamy, laureato all’Institut d’Études Politiques, all’Hautes Études Commerciales e all’École National d’Administration, è stato Capo di gabinetto del Presidente della Commissione europea Jacques Delors dal 1985 al 1994, Direttore generale del Crédit Lyonnais dal 1994 al 1999, Commissario europeo (al Commercio) dal 1999 al 2004, Direttore generale dell’Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio dal 2005 al […]
Policy Paper – The World Trade Organisation: new issues, new challenges
Pascal Lamy, our honorary president, deals with the new issues and challenges of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). His Policy Paper: 1. Analyses the transformation of international trade; 2. Explains why the emerging countries are changing the picture and; 3. Suggests ways to reform the WTO governance. This Policy Paper was first published in French […]
Débat d’Agorena – Europe : sortie de crise ?
Sentiment de déclin, angoisse, dépression collective, les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour décrire le malaise ambiant. Il n’en fallait pas plus à notre grand témoin, Pascal Lamy, internationaliste de conviction, pour démonter le rapport biaisé entretenu par la France avec le monde. Deux heures durant, il a montré combien cet état d’esprit, voire cette pensée […]
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