By David Barwick
WASHINGTON (MNI) – The global community should avoid practices
based on the notion that one must hurt other countries to benefit one’s
own, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said Friday.
“This is certainly no time for complacency in any respect,” Trichet
told a conference on the margins of the Annual Meeting of the World Bank
and IMF.
Trichet said his main message would be to “keep the spirit of
cooperation at the global level,” that “we must fight protectionism and
we must avoid the beggar-thy-neighbor policies that I see looming.”
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