Britain’s departure from the European Union will be costly for both sides in trade terms, however good the exit deal reached, former head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy said on Thursday. Read more
Pascal Lamy, who was the chief of WTO between 2005 and 2013, also said that a comprehensive free-trade deal between the UK and the EU could take between five to six years to negotiate Read more
Pascal Lamy said the UK would have ‘less open’ and ‘more costly’ trade than if it struck bilateral agreement post-Brexit Read more
Britain faces a “costly and complex” exit from the EU, the former chief of the World Trade Organisation has warned, as he laid out the scale of the administrative task facing the government in agreeing new trade terms with the bloc in just two years.
Pour Pascal Lamy, si la cohabitation est difficile entre le capitalisme et la question de la justice sociale, fermer les frontières serait une grave erreur.
Former director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy has said the UK government’s suggestion that leaving the EU with no trade deal is better than a bad deal, is « not the best way » to start negotiations. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04x1c6p/player
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