As Top Trade Official, Subtle Diplomatic Skills Are His Best Weapon Geneva – Pascal Lamy is know as « the Exocet » for a personality as direct and aggressive as the missile built in his French homeland. Read more
Another year, another riot. Twelve months on from the street fighting in Seattle that put paid to attempts to launch a new round of trade liberalisation, it was the turn of Nice to witness the thump of exploding petrol bombs and taste the tear gas.
Pascal Lamy is known as »the Exocet » for a personality as direct and aggressive as the missile built in his French homeland. But now that he is Europe’s top trade official, Mr. Lamy’s subtle diplomacy may be a more useful weapon.
Er raucht hauchdünne Zigarillos, trägt einen feinen graubraunen Anzug und ist total kahl geschoren. Nur die dunklen Flecken am Hinterkopf lassen ahnen, wo er vormals Haare hatte.
Depuis quinze ans, la presse le décrit comme « le technocrate de choc », « l’Exocet de Delors », le « bourreau de travail ». Cet énarque au regard bleu acéré et à la volonté inflexible est réputé pour son sens de l’organisation et son langage direct.
With only six week before the Millennium Round of world trade talks in Seattle, the first trans-Atlantic tiff has already flared. And all that is at stake so far id the agenda. Read more
Pascal LAMY 