A European conception of trade policy. I would like to come back to what I said in this column yesterday about the forthcoming replacement of the Commissioners for the trade and agricultural policies within the Barroso Commission. Pascal Lamy, with the highly effective support of Franz Fischler and the sometimes easily obtained, sometimes hard-fought (but always won) approval of the Council, has laid the foundations of a reasonable EU trade policy against the backdrop of globalisation, and...