Le départ difficile signifie toutefois également - ne nous berçons pas d'illusions - que le vieux consensus qui influençait le commerce mondial et les règles y afférentes et qui partait du principe que les retombées nationales étaient essentiellement positives, que ce consensus commence tout doucement à s'émietter.
However, the difficult opening also means, and we should not fool ourselves, that the old consensus which influenced the interplay between open world trade and binding trade rules and which always assumed that there was an essentially positive influence on national developments has since begun to crumble.