article<\/a> de ce matin, \u00e9videmment rendu possible par des fuites directes de l’\u00e9quipe Mandelson, le FT annonce les hostilit\u00e9s en termes francs et clairs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abEurope’s trade commissioner will attack the government of France on its doorstep today with a ringing defence of the free market.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPeter Mandelson will tell the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry that competition is not a dirty word in a line-by-line rebuttal of the views of Nicolas Sarkozy, French president.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbCompetition as an ideology, a dogma what has it done for Europe? Mr Sar-kozy asked last week, after securing the removal of a key commitment to free and undistorted competition from the European Union’s reform treaty. Mr Mandelson’s answer is precise. Competition should indeed not be some sort of dogma or religion. But nor is it a dirty word, he will say.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbCompetition has helped make Europe rich and France one of the mostproductive economies in Europe. Competition is how we keep our markets efficient and dynamic; keep prices low for consumers and maintain innovation. Competition is a source of creativity. Without it, our economies would stagnate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe former British trade secretary will also rebuffMr Sarkozy’s claim that trade reciprocity required greater EU protectionism. He would defend European companies from unfair competition, he said, but added: The response to a fortress Europe is a fortress US, or a fortress China and India. We need reciprocal openness, not reciprocal barriers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Mandelson will say the French government is using tough rhetoric to disguise its domestic reform agenda and the tactic could backfire.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe FT conclut beno\u00eetement, ou bien prudemment, ou bien d’une fa\u00e7on provocante, cela d\u00e9pend du point de vue qu’on adopte que l’appel du commissaire europ\u00e9en sera pris plus comme une d\u00e9claration de guerre que comme un appel \u00e0 la raison libre-\u00e9changiste, sans oublier de rappeler que Sarko a d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9clam\u00e9 la t\u00eate de Mandelson : \u00abMr Sarkozy, who has already called for Mr Mandelson to be demoted, may treat his remarks as a declaration of war rather than a wake-up call, which would raise tensions between Paris and Brussels still further.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCette p\u00e9rip\u00e9tie est dans tous les cas le signe que l’attaque fran\u00e7aise du sommet de Bruxelles a laiss\u00e9 des traces et a \u00e9t\u00e9 ressentie durement par les partisans du libre-\u00e9change. Le choix d’une contre-attaque aussi tranch\u00e9e, certainement avec l’accord de Barroso (et de Brown \u00e0 Londres) n’est pas n\u00e9cessairement le meilleur possible, au vu du peu de soutien que la position britannique a re\u00e7u \u00e0 Bruxelles contre l’attaque fran\u00e7aise. Bien entendu, tous les arguments sont \u00e0 g\u00e9om\u00e9trie variable et largement sollicit\u00e9s, notamment l’argument selon lequel il ne faut pas faire une Forteresse Europe parce qu’elle conduirait en riposte \u00e0 une Fortress USA<\/em>, car que faire, puisque Fortress USA<\/em> existe d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 30 juin 2007 \u00e0 22H57<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Par avance, dans ses \u00e9ditions du matin, le Financial Times nous annonce que le commissaire europ\u00e9en au commerce Peter Mandelson doit attaquer ce soir (sans doute est-ce en train d’\u00eatre fait, ou d\u00e9j\u00e0 fait) les d\u00e9fenseurs du n\u00e9o-protectionnisme. Si vous avez reconnu Sarkozy parmi ceux-ci, vous ne vous \u00eates pas tromp\u00e9s. Dans son article de… <\/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":[3556,3557,4367,1097,4590],"class_list":["post-68956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-commerce","tag-libre-echange","tag-mandelson","tag-protectionnisme","tag-sarkozy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956","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=68956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}