PascalLamy, Director-General of the WTO recently said that the EU is the “laboratory of international governance”, meaning the emerging one world government sees the European Union as a model for building a one world government.
LONDON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company today announces that it has appointed Mr. PascalLamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to join its Board of Directors.
Global trade this year is likely to fall by an "unprecedented" figure of more than 10 percent, the head of the World Trade Organisation said Monday. PascalLamy said governments have made progress in tackling the worst downturn for decades but much remains to be done. "In February this year, the global economic downturn was peaking," the WTO director general told...
Although occupied with the trade body's most important meeting, WTO chief PascalLamy had two more things to do -- writing his daily blog and learning to speak Chinese. "Rainy weather here in Geneva. I had loads of papers to read before going to the office," Lamy wrote in his blog on Monday, which was posted on the official website of the Geneva-based WTO. It is not clear...
France's overall trade through this year will decline more than 10 percent while "good signs" for the economy might emerge in 2010, Anne-Marie Idrac, the foreign trade minister, said Tuesday. Idrac spoke on radio Classique while discussing the forecast of PascalLamy, the chief of the World Trade Organization, for world trade in 2009. Lamy said Monday in Seoul that global...
In a letter to WTO Director-General PascalLamy nine marine scientists asserted that "the WTO has an unprecedented opportunity to make new trade rules that will turn the tide for the world’s fisheries." The scientists recognized the relevance of trade and the WTO to the environment and urged the Director-General to "continue to use your leadership to achieve a successful...
The World Trade Organisation chief urged members Monday to resist protectionist pressure in the wake of the economic crisis, but said hopes of an early deal to free up international commerce are uncertain. "In February this year, the global economic downturn was peaking," WTO director general PascalLamy told a forum. "Less than a year on, progress has been made but we...
Ten years after the “Battle in Seattle”, Greg Palast confronts Director-General of the World Trade Organization, PascalLamy, on just how little has changed.
WTO members need to break the deadlock in the Doha Round trade negotiations by the end of March if they are to meet their target of concluding the Round in 2010, chief of the organization PascalLamy said on Wednesday. The end of the first quarter is "probably the last moment in 2010 when the breakthrough we need would lead to a conclusion before the end of year," Lamy...
WTO members need to break the deadlock in the Doha Round trade negotiations by the end of March if they are to meet their target of concluding the Round in 2010, chief of the organization PascalLamy said on Wednesday. The end of the first quarter is "probably the last moment in 2010 when the breakthrough we need would lead to a conclusion before the end of year," Lamy...
... is madness to instil today’s disasters by encouraging barriers to trade. Sadly though, even PascalLamy, director of the World Trade Organization, has sanctioned this approach, saying that the world’s priorities should be “climate first and trade, second.” And – surprise, surprise – uncompetitive industries and other vested interests have jumped...