Catégorie Trade
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 ? »
New trade commissioner seen as ‘intellectual paratooper’
But some MEPs are threatening to make trouble for Pascal Lamy at his confirmation hearings, writes Guy de Jonquières None of last week’s appointments to the new European Commission has aroused more surprise, fascination or suspicion than the award of the international trade portfolio to Pascal Lamy of France. To economics liberals, and many of […]
