Brussels, 16/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - Pascal Lamy, European Commission responsible for trade policy, said that the provisions on trade policy (and above all on the aspect of this policy relating to cultural issues), included in the draft European constitutional treaty, are a battle won. In a stance published in Le Figaro of 15 July, he states that the current text allows trade policy to make a real qualitative jump forward compared to the Nice Treaty, for two reasons:
a) by giving the...