Jack Thurston

It must be frustrating being the President of the European Commission: a whole lot of responsibility but very little power. When Jose Manuel Barroso meets George W Bush at the White House next week he may be able to offer some advice to a US President who has just lost control of Congress and is [...]

I was invited to speak at the World Trade Organisation Public Forum, held last month at the WTO’s headquarters on the shore of Lake Geneva. (More on the questionable wisdom of locating a pro-free trade institution in highly protectionist Switzerland will follow…) In the opening plenary session we were addressed by WTO Director General, the [...]