Archives de Tag: Director-General of The World Trade Organization (2005-2013)
Forbes – Good News from the WTO
WTO chief Pascal Lamy’s speech at the GA yesterday was pretty unsurprising but there was some good news and some interesting commentary at the presser that followed.
Acceptance Speech at the « Global Economy Prize », Kiehl Institute
Photo AP The 2010 Global Economy Prize was awarded to Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization by The Kiel Institute, 20th June 2010. Here is his acceptance speech Ein deutscher Freund erklärte mir neulich sein Verhältnis zur französischen Sprache : « sie ist wie meine Frau, sagte er: ich liebe sie sehr und […]
Interview for Forbes about trade
Forbes: Global trade fell about 12% in 2009. What caused this precipitous fall? How does global trade look this year and what can be done to increase global trade? Lamy: The picture this year is much brighter, but you are right, last year was a bad year for trade. There were two things that lead […]
World trade contracted 12 percent in 2009: WTO’s Lamy
Global trade contracted by about 12 percent in 2009 but has started to pick up, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Wednesday. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said the Organization had revised its previous estimate of a contraction of about 10 percent in 2009 but gave no forecast for 2010. « World […]
Pétition pour la parité dans les institutions communautaires
Depuis l’origine, la Communauté européenne a fait de la non-discrimination, de l’égalité hommes/femmes et de la défense des droits des femmes, une priorité de son action. Le traité de Lisbonne renforce encore davantage la portée de l’égalité hommes/femmes en la rangeant parmi ses valeurs et ses objectifs (articles 2 et 3 §3). Le traité […]
Declaration of Notre Europe’s Steering Committee on November 7th 2009
The European Union after Lisbon: a three-part counterpoint The Lisbon Treaty offers a re-written score for Europe: it is up to its newly strengthened institutions, led by men and women freshly summoned for the task, to interpret it in a way which will rise to the challenges of this century. A new season has arrived […]
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