Note
| 01/02/2012
While the
heads of state and governments of the EU have just taken crucial decisions for
the European economies, Pascal Lamy puts the current debates in a global
context by giving a broad outline of the emerging world and by imagining the
reforms which would allow Europe to be more optimistic about its future.
In this Tribune
based on his intervention during the European Steering Committee of Notre Europe, he first reminds us how
the increasing power of emerging countries and the reconfiguration of
production lines deeply modified the context in which European economies are
evolving.
He then outlines that the main economic problems
of Europe are not connected to international trade or to a commercial policy wrongly
presented as "naive", but to others more structural factors.
He therefore
deduces that the strengthening of the “price” and “non-price” competitiveness
must be the main objective of the economic and social policies as far as education,
training, innovation and labour market are concerned to allow EU countries to make
the most of the comparative advantages they have at world level.
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