Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Ghérari Habib
    Protectionnisme: le retour?
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 558, mai ,  2012 ,  315-321
    Free trade and protectionism are warmly debated both nationally, especially in France in the framework of the presidential campaign, and internationally. International trade indeed suffers not only from the repercussions of the economic crisis, but also from restrictive measures taken here and and there in a regular and even growing manner. The G20 lends specific attention to that phenomenon, to the point that its members have even agreed not to use it, at least until 2013. One can only note that that undertaking is not kept for the moment; and at the last ministerial conference of the WTO in December 2011, the ministers stressed that it was important to maintain the markets open and that it was necessary to resist protectionism, particularly in view of the world's difficult economic environment. What is the actual situation? What are the multilateral disciplines involved? And what to think about the actual extent of such measures: what impacts do they have on world trade. Those are the questions that this study attempts to provide a number of answer to.
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