25 juin<\/a> sur le sommet de Bruxelles constitue, en un sens, le verdict mesur\u00e9 et partag\u00e9 par toute la communaut\u00e9 libre-\u00e9changiste transatlantique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tEn voici l’essentiel, ax\u00e9 autour de l’action de Sarkozy \u00e0 Bruxelles. C’est une d\u00e9fense sans condition du libre-\u00e9change et de la comp\u00e9tition, dont on nous rappelle que l’esprit g\u00e9n\u00e9ral permet \u00abde rendre les dirigeants d’entreprise honn\u00eates<\/em>\u00bb (voir BAE-Yamamah<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abCompetition as an abstract idea still less as a dogma is not the sort of thing that people rush to the barricades to defend. Yet it is fundamental to the European way of life and the prosperity Europeans enjoy. Competition keeps executives honest and prices low, allows fresh ideas to emerge and sweeps away incompetence, profligacy and corporate arrogance. It is too important to be the arbitrary plaything of the larger European states.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat is why Mr Sarkozy’s little coup at the EU treaty negotiations is worrying. He persuaded his fellow leaders to drop the principle of free and undistorted competition from Article 3 of the old constitutional treaty. Until last Friday, that objective was right at the top of the draft document. Now it will be buried in a protocol annexed to the treaties, one of many such documents, agreed as sops to governments that have lost their arguments in previous summits. It risks becoming a point of interest in legal arguments, not a starting point.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhat now? Neelie Kroes, the EU competition commissioner, has vowed to continue with business as usual, scarcely a surprise. Tony Blair argues that EU leaders did not weaken the principle of undistorted competition, even if, regrettably, they missed a chance to strengthen it. That smacks of chopping logic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Sarkozy, by contrast, argues that he has achieved an important triumph and that the jurisprudence of the European Union is likely to change. Although Mr Sarkozy has an incentive to exaggerate the change he may, sadly, be right to declare victory.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEurope’s courts have often referred to the principle of undistorted competition in their judgments; now they must refer to a lowly protocol. It is hard to see how their interpretation of EU law can remain unchanged. The competition commissioner, too, will find that her position as an advocate in favour of competition and against state aid has been weakened.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 26 juin 2007 \u00e0 07H43<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le Financial Times reste la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence supr\u00eame en mati\u00e8re d’orthodoxie \u00e9conomiste et libre-\u00e9changiste comp\u00e9titive (et la seule lecture quasi-collective et quasi-impos\u00e9e au sein de la Commission europ\u00e9enne). L’\u00e9ditorial que le quotidien londonien publie le 25 juin sur le sommet de Bruxelles constitue, en un sens, le verdict mesur\u00e9 et partag\u00e9 par toute la communaut\u00e9 libre-\u00e9changiste… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3631,4246,6790,4478,3557,4590],"class_list":["post-68938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bruxelles","tag-competition","tag-financialtimes","tag-ft","tag-libre-echange","tag-sarkozy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}