The EU's signature of the EU-Canada free-trade agreement (CETA), which had been hoped for at the bilateral summit in Brussels on 27 October, now looks uncertain as EUROPE goes to press on Monday 10 October. This is because of the threat of a veto from the two administrative regions of Belgium - the Region of Wallonia and, to a lesser extent, that of the Brussels Capital Region.
On 23 September, in an effort to overcome these final obstacles to the signing of the CETA, EU trade ministers...