Three days after the Libération front page, and following further negotiations, Wallonia’s parliament voted in favour of the trade deal with Canada on Friday. Belgian politicians drop opposition to EU-Canada trade deal Read moreThere are still several more chapters in the stop-start drama over the European Union’s comprehensive economic and trade agreement (Ceta) with Canada. It is a story that is likely to have implications for EU trade policy, but also for post-Brexit Britain. He declared that “TTIP is dead”, referring to a parallel trade deal the EU is negotiating with the US. Any Brexit trade deal will be political from day one.

Source: The Guardian October 29, 2016 07:00 UTC