No Progress on CETA Trade Deal After EU Summit

Seven years of talks over a trade deal between the European Union and Canada are hanging in the balance, after EU leaders failed to convince Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, to approve it. Negotiations and discussions at an EU leaders summit in Brussels ended Friday with no set deadline for a deal. The agreement between Canada and the EU called CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, would lower trade barriers, but Wallonia, the southern part of Belgium,...

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