EU and the US in the Globalized Economy: Politics and Priorities
On Monday, June 9, 2008 The Rt. Hon. Peter Mandelson PC, European Commissioner for Trade, delivered the Winston Churchill Lecture in New York City.
Whoever moves into the Oval Office on 20 January 2009 will be the first US President whose foreign economic policy from day one will so clearly need to face up to a fundamental shift of global economic and political power from West to East. In the annual Churchill lecture, delivered in New York, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson argued that this means rethinking some central assumptions about how power works in the global economy, and how American and European governments can best defend their people and their interests. “The Atlantic world is no longer the centre of the economic world”, Mandelson says, “because the economic world no longer has a centre”. Mandelson argues that our response to that fact could have immense consequences.
About the speaker:
Peter Mandelson studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. After working as an economist at the Trades Union Congress and as a current affairs TV producer, Peter Mandelson was later appointed Labour Party Director for Campaigns and Communications in 1985. Later he was Tony Blair’s Campaign Manager in the May 1997 election. In 1992 he was elected as MP for the constituency of Hartlepool. Peter Mandelson was appointed to the British Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1998 and in 1999 he was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Peter Mandelson is honorary Chair of Policy Network, a European and international think tank whose journal and conferences promote the exchange and debate of centre-left policy ideas and European social democratic thinking. He was appointed European Commissioner for Trade in 2004.
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