Archives de Tag: European Commission – Commissioner for Trade
Free traders buckle up for French EU presidency
Diplomats from liberal, free-trading nations already fear pushback from protectionists in Paris. BY BARBARA MOENS AND GIORGIO LEALI July 5, 2021 5:15 pm Attention, les Français débarquent! The French are closing in! France’s presidency of the Council of the European Union is still six months away, but the cries of alarm are already going up about what will happen to […]
Newsletter Paris Influence: PFUE
ATTENTION, LES FRANÇAIS DÉBARQUENT : la présidence slovène du Conseil de l’UE a beau commencer ce jeudi, les regards sont déjà rivés sur les Français qui prendront leur relais semestriel en janvier 2022. Et non sans inquiétude, pour certains États membres champions du libre-échange qui préparent déjà leur contre-offensive, d’après plusieurs diplomates et fonctionnaires de ces […]
LEAK: EU’s carbon border tariff to target steel, cement, power
By Kira Taylor | EURACTIV.com with Reuters The European Union plans to impose carbon emission costs on imports of goods, including steel, cement and electricity, according to leaked documents obtained by EURACTIV. The European Commission is due to propose its carbon border adjustment mechanism on July 14, a move designed to put EU firms on an equal footing […]
Pascal Lamy, a former WTO boss and EU commissioner, lays out his views to Morning Trade on vaccines and the push to waive intellectual property rights.
IP WAIVER PROPOSAL DISTRACTS FROM US VACCINE NATIONALISM, FORMER WTO CHIEF SAYS: Washington’s support for lifting intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines could be a smart way to move the spotlight away from American vaccine nationalism, according to former World Trade Organization chief and EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy. It is “difficult to assess the impact in […]
Former EU trade chief and WTO boss Pascal Lamy expects the EU‘s upcoming tool for foreign subsidies to push China to introduce rules on state aid
Politico Pro – Morning Trade – 29.04.2021 LAMY’S STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH CHINESE SUBSIDIES: Pascal Lamy, a former EU trade commissioner and WTO boss, hopes that with its upcoming anti-subsidies tool, the EU will be able to catch up with the U.S. and push China to finally accept rules governing public subsidies. Great expectations: “Expect […]
IFPRI seminar 26 Apr 2021 – Evolving factors shaping trade in agriculture and food
Points made by Pascal Lamy Intro: July 2008: ag ssc rejection by the US was the straw that broke the DDA camelback 13 years later: ag nowhere to be seen in the WTO big agenda what happened? has trade in ag become irrelevant? have soldiers left the battleground? no, none of these; as Jo Swinnen […]
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