Ceta, signed the agreement in Canada and the Eu. Now the ratification of the 38 Parliaments – Techcrunch.it

Juncker and Troudeau sign the Ceta

the european Union and Canada have signed the Ceta, the bilateral agreement on the free trade. The signature was affixed on the occasion of the summit Eu-Canada, Brussels, the capital of Europe, as well as that of Belgium. Canada has signed the first minister, Justin Trudeau. For the european Union signed by the presidents of the Commission and the Eu Council, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, together with Robert Fico, prime minister of Slovakia, whose government holds the rotating presidency of the Council.

After two weeks of deadlock caused by the no of Wallonia now the approval process can proceed. After that, the ministers of the Twenty-eight will give their assent and after that, you will have also given the Plenary of the european Parliament, probably next January (the session of 16-19 January), the Ceta will enter into force in a way that is safe. Will, in fact, the votes of 38 Parliaments to have a free way definitive, and a rejection is around the corner. If, in fact, member States of the Eu are twenty-some Countries have more than one Bedroom: two, as in the case of Italy (Palazzo Madama and Montecitorio), or five, as in the case of Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia, the City of Brussels, the Community of French-speaking and German-speaking).

in the aftermath of the signing of the agreement Ceta with Canada, the president of the european Commission and removed a pebble from the shoe, criticising Belgium and its institutional model. Jean-Claude Juncker has not appreciated the strengths of Wallonia in the Ceta, the free trade agreement between the Eu and Canada: threatening the veto, the parliament of the region, the belgian has kept pending the ratification and forced to move to the summit, the Eu and Canada from Thursday to today.

Wallonia objecting to some elements of the treaty, in particular the possibility for independent judges, non-state, to settle commercial disputes. To overcome the impasse, the european Commission had to discuss directly with the government and the Parliament, valleys, against all the custom of the community. “I want to say to the minister-president of Wallonia, regarded as the main political actor in the debate on the Ceta, the european Commission has played an important role before and after”, with the negotiations closed with the Canada and then by convincing the Walloon region to remove the ostruzionismi. However, he added Juncker, “the interlocutor of the Commission and the Walloon region but the government, and I say this to explain Belgium to the belgians”. Engaging in a dialogue with the authorities in the valley “we have made an exception to the rules”. After what happened, “Belgium think about your operating model, since we are talking here about international relations”.

The Ceta, the free trade agreement between the Eu and Canada, “reflects the values and ambition that Canada and the Eu share”. He said the canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, in the course of the press conference held at the end of the summit, the Eu and Canada. “In affixing the signature of Ceta, the Canada ensures its commitment to an agreement that proteggera’ and will be’ and the well-being of 543 million people” between the Eu and Canada. The agreement, he said, “will increase trade by 20%, adding billions of euros” to the value of the trade flows already existing. But, he recalled Trudeau, “we are only at the beginning of the work”, as a “lack of ratifications” of the Twenty-eight national parliaments of the Eu. The canadian prime minister has thanked the negotiators from canada and the Eu for the work done in the phase of negotiations, as well as the government that preceded it, and the autho rity of the Qebec, the community of French-speaking Canada.