A positive starting point. I am a little late to comment on the initiative from European Commissioner Pascal Lamy, together with figures such as Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Henri Nallet and Dominique Strauss-Khan, on behalf of an even more pronounced "leftist trend" . The reason is that I wanted to give myself time to think before expressing the perplexities that a significant part of the plan (launched in Le Monde of 20 June) caused in my mind.
The personality and convictions of Pascal Lamy are...