A few theoretical bases. Assessing the EU's trade policy over the period 1999-2004, which was established by Pascal Lamy himself (see this column yesterday), is far from a theoretical exercise. It gives us a guided tour of the EU's action, in two areas:
- the positions defended at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), both multilateral negotiations or under the dispute settlement procedure;
- initiatives taken by the Commission autonomously, on the sidelines of the WTO, when the Union's...