CETA The EU and the Walloon government, the coming days to further negotiate the vrijhandelsverdrag between the EU and Canada (CETA). On the Walloon minister-president Paul Magnette (PS) and European parliament speaker Martin Schulz agreed. Schulz sat this morning along with the Canadian minister of Trade Chrystia Freeland. “There is still work to do on the European side,” he said afterwards.
Schulz, and the Canadian minister of Trade Chrystia Freeland. © epa. “We can’t stop in the final kilometre,” announced Schulz yesterday on Twitter. This morning he spoke with the Canadian minister of Trade Chrystia Freeland, who still have not returned home. The two tried to demand an escape from the impasse in the negotiations over the European-Canadian free trade agreement.
“There is still work to do on our side,” said Schulz after the end of that conversation. “The issues on the table are our problems.” Afterwards, he sat again, together with Paul Magnette. After the end of the talks said Schulz that Canada is ready for the CETA-trade treaty to sign, but that the problem in Europe is located.
“The issues that still remain, are European problems,” he said. “There is in my eyes not a single problem that we don’t get solved.” The next few days there will continue to be spoken. “We still have some difficulties in Europe, that clog we are not,” said Magnette. “And we still have to work and talk in the following days.”
“worth The effort”
For Magnette falls out of these difficult negotiations, to learn that future vrijhandelsonderhandelingen “is worth a little more to take time to come up with a solution”.
Magnette is now waiting on a text from the European Commission, which he wants to investigate and submit to the Walloon parliament. According to the Walloon minister-president of the negotiations, meanwhile, will be relaunched on “intra-European” level. He adds that there is not yet a final agreement and refuses to pin down on a tight schedule, “because we need to take time to the democratic and parliamentary process, all the chance to give”, says the still.
Internal troubleshooting
Yesterday walked out of the negotiations between the Walloon government and Canada to nothing. Freeland announced that the negotiations were over, after a meeting with Paul Magnette, in Names yielded nothing.
Magnette regretted that Freeland calls in Names had inflated since he was convinced that there is a solution out of the bus would come. According to Schulz wanted Canada “the clock stop”, until the EU, its internal problems solved.
The European commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström deplored the interruption of the negotiations and expressed the hope to come to a solution. “I sincerely believe that this is not the end of the process,” she said on Twitter.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is in principle next week Thursday in Brussels are expected to the draft treaty to sign. The 27 other EU member states yesterday their approval already given for the signing of the agreement.
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