Pascal Lamy is one of the most intelligent guys I have heard speaking about issues he is involved with. I respect greatly his comments. This clip is also one of the clearest summaries of the Brexit situation. Maybe those who disagree can state precisely what they disagree with in what he says. Let's challenge our own thinking!

he could make the role of next james bond vilan

The people here complaining that the EU is not presenting solutions but, complaining that the EU is not presenting solutions are trying to have it both ways. Brexit was not a trade decision; it was a political one taken by the UK. It is upto the UK to decide the economic costs they are willing to pay for reinstalling the border. It's that simple. WTO rules state that a hard border, with custom checks is is necessary between states in the absence of a customs union agreement. So, Teresa May needs to make that plain to her party and the country. This change cannot be consequence free, and sadly those were not taken into account in any meaniful depth. They need to be presented to the people of the UK. Plain speaking is required instead of gestures, because there is a cost to be paid, and the country should agree to paying it.

I'm sure people who voted for BREXIT know better than this guy ... So yeah blue passport Indeed

GO OUT...and don't forget to CLOSE the door... and don't come back, NEVER ..."On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre..."

The Europeans seem to have clever and more cogent burocrates the English have a guy who doesn't know where his wife is from seriously

Wow, this guy is struggling. The sooner we are out the better. Everyone will want to carry on trading with each other regardless, why wouldn't they?

He talks like accepting immigrants is more important than ones culture. It's simply his outlook and opinion.

A reasonable assessment. Brexit is reaching a crisis point, where there's only bad choices (drop a red line or Blind Brexit or No Deal Brexit or extend Article 50), and only bad options for reaching that choice (referendum or election or precarious parliamentary arithmetic or parliamentary trickery). An elections seems slightly the most likely, but I'm not sure there's any predicting it.

Correction at 1.40 - Brexit is about re-installing sovereignty in the UK, where the EU had removed it, with assistance by Tony Blair.

Well balanced response by Lamy to all questions, except perhaps the one she did not ask. With northern Paris full young men, unemployed, from many regions of the world. Germany unable to redistribute many of it's 1.7 migrant invitees, Rome awash with many others, Spain now targeted by people traffickers, Denmark Hungary and Poland standing firm. Just how much longer can the EU withstand the pressure from their worried populations?

Excellent analysis

yes the brexiteers know better than all experts ...its why we are in this mess to begin with. we live in total ignorance currently

What he is not saying is a hard Brexit will be far more costly to the EU than "@a small proportion". 20% of EU exports go the the UK. But this is a false statistic. That is Gross = 26% of 26 countries, but when you render it down to the NET calculation what is left is there are only 6 or seven countries that have a large enough economy to be a major exporter, Germany, France and Italy being the most important. Take into account that the EU can no longer count upon UK contributions, and with larger tariffs the UK will be trading elsewhere fore the same or similar products, then the impact will be far greater o the EU than they are stating.

Long live the EU and its values

We need to get out of the madness of the Eu please any who reads this don't vote labour

No wonder the process has been so hard, this guy doesn't even know the difference between a negotiation and a deal. Until both sides agree then there is no deal, anything prior to that is just negotiations.

Can't wait to get my British passport back.

He keeps talking about us, who is us? or is it just him?

Why is it that the EU so desperate to keep us in could it be that we are the second biggest contributor .........

Pascal Lamy is not impartial as he was an EU commissioner before his appointment to the WTO. In fact he was a nominee of the EU. His opinions are biased and from the prospective of an archetypical socialist (neo-communist). It is a misconception, made by some commentators below, that WTO requires a hard border as it does not.

Please, get us out of this institution, now.

We’re leaving the EU club, bye

Their has always been borders

Lamy starts off by saying there will be a deal except that wont be a deal , how illuminating is that .Lamy fails to stress that there is a trade deficit with the EU so they need UK more than uk needs the EU . As for a second referendum ,. I might add that this would be illegal , in the sence that before an election there is always an agreement to abide by the result thereof , you dont keep voting until everyone gets the result they want , that would absurd , and lead to a breakdown in law order , and government ,

Former EU Commissioner Pascal Lamy.He's a French Socialist politician, and not exactly impartial.

Look at that, "Project facts", whaddoyouknow? :D

The vote was about getting our country back not about how much money it may or may not cost. If we just leave with no deal we could spend the so called divorce settlement in our own country and on the British people.

Why does the ex-chief look a bit like Dr Evil?)

Typical bureaucrat- identify problems but offer no solutions! He says, There's the American way and the Chinese way but Europeans must find another way? Not even a hint as to what the third way could be.

Rothschild puppets

Jean pierre coffe!!