Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Founding Director, Evian Group at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Financial Times, July 19, 2012
Sir, In the catalogue of bad ideas (of which there have been many recently), surely that of a European Union-Japan free trade agreement deserves a gold medal for sheer imbecility (“Brussels to push Japan for trade deal”, July 18)...
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In the process, the multilateral trade regime has been dramatically eroded and the WTO negotiations have become an expensive farce – expensive in terms of time, money, environmental footprint (all those needless high-level trade meetings), carbon dioxide emissions (all the hot air generated) and in the costs to global trade governance...
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