Ministers from all 28 EU member states, including Belgium, on Tuesday pledged their support for the comprehensive economic and trade agreement (Ceta) with Canada. “There has to be an agreement,” said the EU trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström. Now they will also be confronted with salvaging the EU-Canada trade deal, in order to avoid a damaging diplomatic fallout. Canada is increasingly impatient with the EU’s last-minute doubts, over a trade deal the two sides began negotiating more than seven years ago. Canada's trade deal with EU a model for Brexit?

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2016 16:07 UTC