The Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest for May 4 reports on the results of the second round in the WTO Director-General selection process.
The text isn't posted to the web site yet (it should appear shortly at "BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest ").
The story covers the basic details of the round. It has information on speculation about EU strategic voting that's not in some other stories on the round:
Cuttaree had enjoyed the support of the 56 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group WTO Member countries, and had reportedly finished ahead of Perez del Castillo in the first round of consultations. Trade sources report some Cuttaree supporters as suggesting that the EU's 25 WTO Members had expressed secondary support for Perez del Castillo in the expectation that the ACP countries, which receive preferential access to the EU market, would transfer their support to Lamy in the Mauritian's absence...
The third and final round begins next week (on May 9).
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