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Free trade with E-U in jeopardy

October 21, 2016

Free trade with E-U in jeopardy

A free trade deal between Canada and the European Union is still hung up because of reluctance by Belgium to sign it.

The president of the European Union, Donald Tusk, is warning if this deal doesn’t go through it could mean the end of such agreements with any other country.  Tusk says to have a treaty involving 500 million Europeans and 36 million Canadians fall apart because of one country of 3.5 million people would undermine the credibility of the E-U as a whole.