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The idea of a new world trade negotiation round seems to progress, but are they talking of the same round - Pascal Lamy's view, now clear, goes well beyond simple access to market and favours "global governance"

The pilgrim of a new view. We have been told that the plan for a new round of international trade negotiations in the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) progresses - slowly but nevertheless progresses - in peoples minds. It remains to be seen if it is of the same round that they are both speaking about. From our perspective as observers, the answer is clear: it is no.

The round to which Pascal Lamy is thinking is absolutely not the same as that thought of by, for example, the...