Archives de Tag: Director-General of The World Trade Organization (2005-2013)
Former WTO Director defends multilateralism on ‘Talking Foreign Affairs’
August, 16, 2022 Former WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, was the recent guest on ‘Talking Foreign Affairs’ with Adil Cader. The two discuss WTO, international institutions and their role in the contemporary scenario. The host Adil Cader opens with a question on importance of the World Trade Organization to global affairs. The former director-general responds that […]
Pascal Lamy: Africa’s position at Cop27
Former director-general of the WTO Pascal Lamy joins us to discuss Africa’s position on global climate change ahead of Cop27 in November. Few people understand issues of international trade, development and environment as well as Pascal Lamy. Following eight years as director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Lamy now serves on the board of the Mo Ibrahim […]
Pascal Lamy on the climate crisis: “We have to go way back to find a global picture as depressing as today”
Cop27 in Egypt must focus on bespoke solutions for the host continent, says the former WTO head. By Philippa Nuttall Pascal Lamy, the former director-general of the World Trade Organisation, likes to keep busy. At 75 many of his peers are settling into their retirement. Lamy, by his own admission, wears “25 hats”. Our video call […]
« Poutine a jeté l’Europe dans les bras américains de l’OTAN et les Américains ont jeté Poutine dans ceux des Chinois » (Pascal Lamy)
GRAND ENTRETIEN- Dans une longue interview accordée à La Tribune, Pascal Lamy, ancien commissaire européen pour le commerce de 1999 à 2004 et ancien directeur général de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) de 2005 à 2013, analyse en profondeur les conséquences géoéconomiques et géopolitiques du choc provoqué par la guerre en Ukraine et des sanctions […]
WTO needs to move from just an organisation to a robust institution: Experts
“The institutional inertia at the World Trade Organisation has only just been broken. Full restoration of the dispute settlement mechanism and consensus on what shape the WTO reform should take remains challenging,” said Pradeep Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International. He was making introductory remarks at a webinar organised by CUTS to discuss the future of […]
La ministérielle de l’OMC, un bilan ni médiocre, ni historique, pour Pascal Lamy
/ Genève (Suisse) – 22 juin 2022 06:45 – AFP (Agnès PEDRERO) Le bilan des accords conclus lors de la 12e Conférence ministérielle de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce à Genève n’est ni historique, ni médiocre, estime pour l’AFP Pascal Lamy, qui a dirigé l’organisation de 2005 à 2013. Q: L’OMC et des Etats parlent d’un […]
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