André Sapir, a Belgian citizen, is Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He is a Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission. In 2004, he published ’An Agenda for a Growing Europe’, a report to the president of the Commission by a group of independent experts that is known as the Sapir report. André holds a PhD in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, 1977. At ULB, he holds a chair in international economics and European integration.He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition, he is a member of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s Economic Policy Analysis Group.André is a founding Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organisation.
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Presentation Pierre Kirch 1. The Treaty of Lisbon refers to "free and undistorted" competition only in the preamble to Protocol No 6 on competition policy. We know that the protocols have the same legal value as the main body of the Treaty; indeed, these topics have already been discussed (...)
