The French Minister for Foreign Trade, Franck Riester, defended, on Thursday 17 September, a reform of the WTO that places sustainable development at the centre of the concerns of a revitalised multilateral trade system.
We are not giving up on having a multilateral organisation that takes into account “sustainable development” and promotes “respect for common public goods”, he told some journalists in Brussels. He considered that the “top priority” was to break the deadlock on...