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 […]
While Downing Street and the Foreign Office were breaking out the champagne at Friday’s news that Neil Kinnock and Chris Patten had got top jobs at the new Brussels Commission, Washington rang. The Americans wanted to know whether the British thought Pascal Lamy would be a problem.
The French government’s decision to nominate Pascal Lamy, currently number two at Credit Lyonnais, as a European Commissioner, deprives the bank of its future chairman.
Directeur général du Crédit Lyonnais, il devient l’un des deux nouveaux commissaire français à Bruxelles. Austère et travailleur, il y avait déjà dirigé d’une main de fer le cabinet de Jacques Delors, président de la Commission.
– Extracts from Delors : inside the house that Jacques built > Biography Charles Grant (British, born 1958) is a journalist, writing first for ‘Euromoney’ and then for ‘The Economist’, where he spent four years as Brussels correspondent (1989-1993). He left ‘The Economist’ in 1998 to become founding director of the Centre for European Reform, […]
L’influent directeur de cabinet de Jacques Delors est depuis avril 1994 au conseil exécutif du Crédit lyonnais. Les qualités de cet organisateur hors pair y seront précieuses.
Pascal LAMY 