Archives de Tag: Director-General of The World Trade Organization (2005-2013)

Autopsie de la désindustrialisation française

Le livre de Nicolas Dufourcq est un réquisitoire implacable et minutieux contre – notamment – la succession des décisions politiques, de gauche ou de droite, qui ont conduit à la disparition de la moitié de nos usines, entre 1995 et 2015. Il montre comment le modèle social français pèse de tout son poids sur les entreprises, jusqu’à […]

Deglobalization Is Not Inevitable

How the World Trade Organization Can Shore Up the Global Economic Order By Pascal Lamy and Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki June 9, 2022 As trade officials gather on the calm shores of Lake Geneva for the World Trade Organization’s long-delayed 12th ministerial conference, a perfect storm is brewing in the multilateral trading system. The cumulative effects of the […]

Analysis: WTO seeks fish, vaccine deals as war ignites trade tensions

June 3, 20228 By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA/BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization will host ministers from across the globe this month with the aim of striking deals on fish and vaccines, testing the world’s ability to set trade rules at a time of mounting tensions. Global trade discord, COVID-19 and the crippling […]

Para Lamy, mundo entra em ‘slowbalization’

Para ex-diretor-geral da OMC, a urgência climática aumenta mais rapidamente do que a militarPor Assis Moreira — De Genebra A geopolítica voltou a se impor sobre a geoeconomia. A principal manifestação dessa nova realidade mundial é a rivalidade entre os Estados Unidos e a China, e isso se reflete também na guerra da Rússia contra […]

Crise alimentaire : « C’est une tempête qui va durer », estime Pascal Lamy, président de l’Institut Jacques Delors

Sur fond d’inflation galopante et de guerre en Ukraine, des problèmes d’approvisionnement se posent pour des denrées aussi essentielles que le blé. Une crise alimentaire se prépare, mais il y a des moyens de l’éviter selon Pascal Lamy, ancien directeur de OMC et coordinateur des instituts Jacques Delors. « On est à la dernière limite de […]

Donald Kaberuka and Pascal Lamy on the need for clean-energy partnerships between Africa and Europe

The former officials say Africa can help wean Europe off Russian fossil fuels Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leaves Europe scrambling for alternative sources of energy. Africa has lots to offer. But co-operation on this new priority cannot be divorced from fraught eu-Africa relations more generally, and climate more specifically. Tension has mounted over delayed summits and Europe’s […]