Archives de Tag: Director-General of The World Trade Organization (2005-2013)
EU rescue package: borrowing to prevent a north-south split
After feeling betrayed by Brussels’ initial pandemic response, Italians have welcomed the new fiscal deal Sam Fleming in Brussels, Miles Johnson in Rome, and Ian Mount in Madrid JULY 24 2020 Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte was unrestrained in his triumphalism about the deal he secured at this week’s crisis summit in Brussels. The unprecedented pan-European rescue package, he boasted, “would […]
Trump’s ‘empty threat’ to quit World Trade Organisation
The former head of the World Trade Organisation has accused President Trump of issuing an “empty threat” in warning that he could withdraw the United States. Pascal Lamy said that Washington had sought to “rob the bank” by leading a sustained campaign to paralyse global trade’s supreme court. The director-general between 2005 and 2013 conceded […]
Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements
FOREWORD Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are a critical part of the international trade architecture, but they remain poorly understood. In part, this is because there is surprisingly limited information on what their features are and how they work in practice. This disconnect became patently clear in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, which has pulled […]
UK and EU research leaders urge Brexit negotiators to compromise on Horizon Europe agreement.
In a joint statement published today, over 100 organisations and individuals representing the research community across the UK and Europe have set out how negotiators could secure an agreement on UK participation in the EU’s major research framework programme. As negotiators continue the fifth round of discussions on the post-Brexit EU-UK relationship this week, the […]
« Discussion talks without the US » Interview with WTO Lamy
Japonese readers: find the interview of Pascal Lamy in the Japonese newspaper THE TOKYO SHIMBUN
« Merkel est passée d’une sortie par le bas à une sortie par le haut »
La relance économique sera-t-elle européenne ou pas ? Pascal Lamy, de l’Institut Jacques-Delors, livre son analyse à quelques jours du sommet européen. Propos recueillis par Emmanuel Berretta On ne présente plus Pascal Lamy, ancien directeur de l’OMC, bras droit de Jacques Delors, expert reconnu à Bruxelles. Président émérite de l’Institut Jacques-Delors, l’un des think tanks les plus influents dans […]
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