Belgian 'Non' to block EU approval of Canada trade deal

By Philip Blenkinsop
| LUXEMBOURG

LUXEMBOURG EU governments failed on Tuesday to approve a free trade agreement with Canada, as continued opposition from French-speaking southern Belgium threatened the entire deal.Almost all 28 EU governments, whose ministers were meeting in Luxembourg, now back the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which would be the bloc’s first trade accord with a G7 country. Failure to strike a deal with such a like-minded country would call into question the EU’s ability to forge others, and offer a pointer to the difficulties Britain might face in seeking a new trade relationship with the EU after …
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