Emergency meetings have been taking place in Brussels in an effort to save an EU free trade deal with Canada, blocked by a Belgian region. After seven years of negotiations on the deal, known as Ceta, talks broke down on Friday. All 28 EU member states support the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) agreement, which was to be signed next week. There have also been big demonstrations in several EU countries against Ceta and the TTIP trade talks between the EU and the US. The failure to clinch the EU-Canada Ceta deal is an embarrassment, writes Laurence Peter, the BBC website's EU analyst.

Source: The Star October 22, 2016 10:07 UTC