Hard talk at WTO symposium

At the World Trade Organisation’s public symposium last week, the European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy pressed his case on agriculture and Singapore Issues. But he was contradicted by three other speakers (including a top businessman) and participants who wanted the Singapore Issues really dropped.  

IT was an interesting week at the World Trade Organisation, for this normally secretive body opened its doors at Geneva for a three-day public symposium on Multilateralism at the Crossroads.