120 ordspråk av Pascal Lamy
Pascal Lamy
The director-general has no magic wand ... things do not work this way in the WTO. We can catalyse, we can broker, we sometimes can lead, but at the end of the day ... member states have the decision-making power.
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The EU has shown flexibility, ... A final package should be balanced, taking due account of the specificity of the important trading relationship between the EU and China.
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The EU has to give proof of greater flexibility in terms of market access.
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The EU is often perceived as part of this process of globalization that threatens us.
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The EU will of course launch an immediate complaint in Geneva (at the WTO) against this clear violation of WTO rules and we will take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard our own market,
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The Europeans know that they will have to move on agricultural market access. The US knows it will have to move on agricultural domestic support and emerging countries like Brazil, India, South Africa and a few others know that they will have to move on industrial tariffs and services.
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The global trading system is undergoing a period of transition. Persistent imbalances, driven largely by macroeconomic factors, continue to be a cause for concern.
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The negotiations are in an advanced stage. It's moving, but not moving fast enough. Not that it's blocked, and not that it has reached a deadlock. But it's moving slowly and probably too slowly.
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The problems are numerous and time is fading, ... There are a mountain of subjects to address and I hope that it can be climbed.
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The problems are numerous and time is fading. There are a mountain of subjects to address and I hope it can be climbed.
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The success or failure of the round (of negotiations) will be decided in the 40 days before the end of April.
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The U.S. decision to go down the route of protectionism is a major setback for the world trading system,
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The U.S. have taken useful steps ... there is much more to do.
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The U.S. must budge on domestic farm support, the E.U. must budge on agriculture tariffs and the G-20 must budge on industrial tariffs. We are approaching the moment of truth.
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There is a lot of work ahead of us, following both what happened and what did not happen last July...the way ahead to Hong Kong obviously is and remains the number one priority.
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