Catégorie Trade
Liberal with a social mission
Pascal Lamy tells Guy de Jonquières how free trade and social justice can be combined To be a member of France’s technocratic elite, a committed socialist and a self-professed believer in free trade is a rare combination of qualities. Pascal Lamy, the European Union’s recently appointed trade commissioner, is all these things. « It is my […]
Belgium: EU’s Lamy to meet Chinese Minister over WTO entry
(Dow Jones) – The E.U. new trade commissioner Pascal Lamy plans to meet with Chinese officials to discuss China’s entry to the World Trade Oragnization in October, a Commission spokesman said Tuesday. […] Read more
Europe1 – Interview de Pascal Lamy par Jean Pierre Elkabbach
– Vous êtes commissaire européen jusqu’en 2005 à partir de ce matin, à quoi ressemble l’air et les parfums de ce premier matin ? – C’est comme un certain nombre des moments de la vie, beaucoup de choses changent, on change de boulot, on change de résidence, on change d’état d’esprit.
Pascal Lamy, free-market Frenchman?
(The Economist) – AS THE 20th would be members of the new European Commission field before the vetting squads of the European Parliament this week, clutching their revision notes and affecting just enough of an air of gravity to protect the hearing from empty ritual a curious thought sprang to mind. […] Read more
France: Profile Trade Chief Lamy, The adaptable french socialist.
Paris (MktNews) – Pascal Lamy, the EU trade Commissioner designated to succeed the UK’s Sir Leon Brittan, is working hard to cast off preconceptions that he can be no other but a product of the French protectionist tradition. « I belong to those who think that liberalisation is good for France. » Lamy said recently on French television. […]
L’expansion – Lamy européen
Les Anglo-Saxons n’ont pu réprimer quelques sarcasmes à l’annonce de la nomination de Pascal Lamy comme commissaire européen chargé du commerce : « Quoi, un Français ? Socialiste ? Enarque ? Euromaniaque ? pour négocier des accords de libre-échange avec le reste du monde au nom de l’Europe tout entière ? »
Pascal LAMY 