The always sharp Matthew Lee asked Lamy to explain the impact these will have.
And earlier this month, WTO negotiations chief Pascal Lamy said talks have "fully resumed, " albeit informally.
The French seem to hope that Mr Lamy will be offered the competition portfolio.
The process of setting standards and WTO policy is more tortoise than hare, according to Lamy.
Left to themselves, Mr Lamy and Mr Zoellick could probably sort out these spats.
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Moreover, it is far from clear that Mr Lamy has abandoned his own political ambitions.
Will Mr Lamy himself stay beyond his four-year term, which ends in September 2009?
But Mr Lamy will at least have inside knowledge of how far the EU can be pushed.
But then, Mr Lamy, who says he is still a socialist, is known to believe in lost causes.
France may offer Pascal Lamy, chief of staff to Jacques Delors when Mr Delors was the commission's president.
French Judge Brigette Lamy said she agreed with reports that the submarine was in Plymouth at the time.
Hedge funds, as Mr Lamy points out, have an appetite for buying debt but only at distressed prices.
"As long as global economic weakness persists, protectionist pressure will build and could eventually become overwhelming, " Mr. Lamy said.
Together, Mr Zoellick and Mr Lamy have settled fights on subjects ranging from bananas to copyright on Irish music.
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Since Mr Lamy is a French socialist, Mr Chirac may be reluctant to reappoint him as France's lone commissioner.
Both Mr Lamy and Robert Zoellick, his opposite number in America, are playing down the significance of these disputes.
The WTO's director-general, Pascal Lamy, also detects longer-run strategic decisions to distort markets in order to promote national industries.
Close to Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, Mr Lamy will want one of the big economic or foreign jobs.
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Pascal Lamy, the departing head of the World Trade Organization, told the conference that services were increasingly embedded into production chains.
The two sides now have until the end of the current session of the US Congress to reach a deal, Lamy said.
Lamy touched on two important challenges to free trade at the moment.
Mr Lamy and Mr Zoellick may be fleet of foot, but India and the G22 look to be digging in their heels.
One of the areas Lamy says the WTO is reviewing is whether it needs to offer up multiple topics to 153 members for agreement.
Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organisation, invoked them in his plea this week to save the Doha round of global trade talks.
But Mr Lamy's outfit can do little about the biggest looming threat to free trade, which comes from the crisis in the euro zone.
Director-General Pascal Lamy announced that, contrary to the original 9.5% stat released by the agency, international trade is going to be up 13.5% this year.
For his predecessor, Pascal Lamy, the term was a frustrating one.
In the following clip, Lamy talks about how the WTO is working to bring more African and Middle Eastern countries to the global trade table.
Daniel Lamy of JPMorgan reckons 23% of the market for European senior secured loans will mature by the end of 2012 (and 44% by end-2013).
Pascal Lamy, EU Commissioner for Trade met the BBC's Tim Sebastian.
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