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Commissioner Lamy: On the first question—whether it can be done before the end of this year—my feeling is that the notion I got from my interlocutors is, yes, it can be done before the end of this year, thus matching the time horizon which we had set in springtime this year.
Commissioner Lamy: The disappearance of the peace clause is a sword that hangs on many many necks, and the conventional wisdom in WTO is that there are so many necks under this sword that pulling the trigger would probably be very harmful to many people.
Commissioner Lamy: We have already tried that and, to my knowledge, once you are in a litigation process you have to abide to the ruling and that is the stage where we are.
The European Institute convened a roundtable discussion with The Honorable Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta.
Commissioner Verheugen alluded to the ongoing debates in Europe on the relocation of jobs and outsourcing, many of which are based on "fears and scare-mongering." According to the Commissioner, the only reasonable solution to this problem is to enhance European competitiveness.
The Transatlantic Roundtable on Trade and Investment focused on the priorities of the US/EU trade agenda for 2005, as well as the challenges ahead for negotiators on both sides of the Atlantic, at a meeting on November 18, 2004.
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