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CANADA and the European Union signed their Ceta trade pact yesterday, ending days of drama after Belgium’s Wallonia region refused to endorse the agreement.
Protesters gathered outside EU headquarters in Brussels as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council president Donald Tusk, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, put their signatures to the agreement.
“This accord is the product of long discussion, frank discussions, but which have always taken place in respect among partners that share common values,” Mr Trudeau commented.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
