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" CETA collapse scuppers Bulgaria and Romania visa deal "



Bulgaria and Romania agreed today (21 October) that their deal to obtain visa-free travel would be part of the CETA “interpretative declaration”, answering the concerns of the Belgian region of Wallonia. A couple of hours later they realised that they made the wrong decision.

Belgium faces Monday deadline for CETA

What’s Wallonia’s deal?
A primer on its role in CETA’s crisis
Barrie McKenna explains how a French-speaking region of Belgium tightened the complicated web of European politics that has ensnared the Canada-EU trade deal.

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CETA: Trudeau staying home as plans to sign Canada-EU trade deal fall through

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Messy, perhaps, but a victory for EU in Canada trade pact

Justin Trudeau: ‘We have learned a great deal about how the European Union works.’
By David M. Herszenhorn 10/30/16, 5:41 PM CET Updated 10/30/16, 8:55 PM CET

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with European Union Commissioner of Trade Cecilia Malmström | François Lenoir/AFP via Getty Images

It wasn’t pretty.
And on Saturday night, when the plane carrying Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Brussels was forced to return to Ottawa because of mechanical problems, it was hard not to think that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement might just be cursed.
But in the end, after seven years of negotiations and more than two weeks of being held hostage by Belgium’s Wallonia region, the landmark trade pact between the EU and Canada was signed Sunday at a hastily rescheduled “summit” that lasted little more than two hours.