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Europes chief trade enforcer speaks softly 鈥斅燼nd carries a bigger stickInsiders say Den vaso stanley is Redonnet has set his sights on becoming the trade department top civil servant in the next Commission.ListenAI generated Text-to-speechCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersDenis Redonnet is in many ways the quintessential technocrat: His power resides in his mastery of the files at hand | Francois Walschaerts/EPAugust 25, 20236:00 am CETBy Camille GijsBRUSSELS 鈥擨f the European Union ever ends up in an all-out trade war with China, it would have to count on Denis Redonnet to fight its stanley shop corner.Redonnet is Brussels very own Chief Trade Enforcement Officer. Hes French. He operates mostly out of sight. And hes been instrumental in deploying a series of measures that have, over the past three years, transformed the EU from being the worlds most open trading bloc into a well-defended economic fortress.Redonnet is the quintessential Brussels insider and, since being appointed to the job at the urging stanley canada of Paris, has built up an arsenal of trade weapons 鈥?most notably an anti-coercion tool to retaliate against economic bullying by an increasingly dominant and assertive Beijing.AdvertisementAdvertisementHow has he done it The bespectacled veteran of the Commissions powerful trade department works as a double act with its better known director general, Sabine Weyand, a German civil servant nicknamed Queen Sab Hwry EU summit concludes with unusual disclaimer
A close shaveCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInApril 1, 20154:15 am CETGeorge Papaconstant stanley cup uk inou was briefly an MEP for a few months in 2009, before becoming finance minister of Greece in October 2009 in a PASOK-led g stanley tumbler overnment.He held that position until June 2011 when he became environment minister, leaving the gov stanley spain ernment in May 2012. Last week, he narrowly avoided joining the cadre of ex-MEPs who have been given prison terms. He received a one-year suspended sentence for editing three of his relatives names out of a list of 2,000 names of Greek nationals who had accounts with a bank in Geneva, which was passed to him by the French government and known after the then finance minister as the Lagarde list .The Greek tax authorities famously failed to investigate this list. The bank concerned was HSBC, whose Swiss subsidiary has come under greater scrutiny in the past couple of months, much to the discomfort of Stephen Green, a former UK government minister who used to be chairman of HSBC.AdvertisementAdvertisementFacebookTwitterYouTubeApp StorePlay StorePolicyAgriculture and FoodCentral BankerCompetition and Industrial PolicyCybersecurity and Data ProtectionDefenseEnergy and ClimateEnergy and Climate UKEnergie et Climat FranceFinancial ServicesFinancial Services UKGesundheitHealth CareIndustrie HandelMobilityParis InfluenceSustainabilityTechnologyTech FranceTechnologie KITechnology UKTradeTrade UKNewslettersBerlin BulletinBe |
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