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The accidental player: The EU and the global economy

by Jean Pisani-Ferry on 31 October 2005

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Topics: Trade, investment and competitiveness


This paper was prepared for a lecture at the Indian Centre for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi. Jean Pisani-Ferry says that while the US exercises leadership over the entire scope of international economic relations, Europe can be characterised as an ‘accidental player‘ whose international behaviour lacks consistency.