The PS is not yet ready to have a Belgian agreement on the European trade treaty with Canada (CETA). There are still technical problems to be resolved, says Rudy Demotte, minister-president of the French community, after a consultation with his party. The minister-presidents went tonight around 23 hours apart, and convert the calls tomorrow to continue.
“It is time for Belgium to show that a common position can take”, said minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders (MR) before the start of the evening meeting. In the eve went to the negotiators from each other, for a final analysis of the text.
According to Demotte contains that document no substantial stumbling blocks for his community. “But we don’t yet have all the tools in hands to knock,” he says. “We have technical corrections, and that requires a little bit of time.” After the Belgian governments to reach an agreement have come to other European countries, the Belgian point of view still approve, but that’s Reynders said “very optimistic”.
There would be even today, a common Belgian declaration, supported by all governments. It states that the agreement can enter into force, but that the federal state parliaments have their final assessment sheets.
With such a compromise would anyone with lifted head can come out. Belgian prime minister Charles Michel (MR) can finally get his signature and see the nasty CETA-saga finally completed. Belgium would again be on the same line. Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois (N-VA) is relieved that the trade treaty enters into force. That especially Flemish companies here will sail. And his Walloon colleague Paul Magnette (PS) can indicate that the parliament has the last word. The lack of democratic participation in the trade was one of his main points of criticism.
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Rudy Demotte (PS) tournament this afternoon, then again the enthusiasm. There must first be an agreement debated in the parliament of the French-speaking Community, so the PS’there. “It is much too early to speak about any agreement.”
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The Belgian compromise text, containing also the Walloon demands, it would be tonight sent to Europe. The European response must then be submitted to the Walloon and French-speaking parliament: are there changes or not? Only if that answer is satisfactory, will the parliaments on the federal foreign affairs minister Didier Reynders (MR), the mandate for the CETA also be effective to sign. Still a long way to go so, what Demotte also did decide that the procedure for tomorrow not will have been completed. “A European-Canadian summit on Thursday is impossible,” he concluded. European president Donald Tusk tweette this morning that he still hopes for a rapid breakthrough: “The summit is still possible.”
The leaders of the state governments and the federal government were this morning back together again. Walloon vice-minister-president Maxime Prévot (cdH) came with new texts on agriculture. He demanded to include additional guarantees that there is no hormone meat from Canada into our country. Magnette, for his part, asked additional legal guarantees for the commitments that Europe has already done. Bourgeois and kris peeters, minister-were just after midday expected to be at question in their parliament.
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For clarity, the text of the agreement itself is not touched. Also there is hardly any discussion about the so-called ‘interpretative declaration’. That is a kind of annex to the agreement, which states how CETA to intepreteren. However, there is now work to a common Belgian declaration, a sort of statement on behalf of all the Belgian governments. That should be the Walloons sufficient guarantee that there is to their comments listened to. In a nutshell, the text down to this: Belgium will still have signed the agreement so it can enter into force, but the states get the chance to finally speak out. That text is now still being worked on.
Also Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois gave to the Flemish parliament this afternoon the same message: “We are not negotiating. We have not been waiting for Paul Magnette. There is no letter changed more to the CETA agreement,” he declared firmly. Magnette is according to Bourgeois’s not all that engaged the treaty to renegotiate. “Everything is already in the treaty. That the services of general interest cannot be liberalised, that the parliaments of their own regelgevingsrecht maintain. I hear here talk about arbitration, but there is in the treaty not the case. This is about a court of law. In addition, with very limited, clear powers. Love with the people point to to make that this is a privatization!”
Bourgeois gave in answer to questions from Wouter Van Besien (Groen) and Rik Daems (Open Vld), for a final state of affairs in the CETA-file. While opposition parties Groen and sp.a their criticism of CETA repeated, said Bourgeois, for his part, again that it is a good treaty for Flanders ‘future prosperity and job creation” can provide.
The prime minister emphasized that there is five years on the treaty is negotiated. “The treaty is negotiated,” says Bourgeois. It is, however, that there are some “clarifications”, but according to Bourgeois, the things that are already in the treaty were. At the same time, there is the question of the much talked gerechtsorgaan in the treaty and quickly start to let go.
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The CETA debate ended with an incident when Bourgeois of president Peumans still got the chance to, for the sake of a “personal fact”, to respond to a note from Wouter Van Besien. Because Of Besien not subsequently had an opportunity to respond, left Green and sp.a the hemisphere. “Apart from the fact that it went to a personal fact or not, the parliament must have the last word. So you go to the parliament,” said Green party leader Björn Rzoska. Sp.a-leader Joris Vandenbroucke is participating in: “The parliament will have the last word. That is a sacred rule.”
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