  We shall discuss how some relevant analyticity and crossing-symmetry
properties of the "eikonal scattering amplitudes" of two Wilson loops in QCD,
when going from Euclidean to Minkowskian theory, can be related to the still
unsolved problem of the asymptotic s-dependence of the hadron-hadron total
cross-sections. In particular, we critically discuss the question if (and how)
a pomeron-like behaviour can be derived from this Euclidean-Minkowskian
duality.
