As EUROPE was going to press on Monday 17 October, suspense remained over the EU’s signing of a free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA), which it is hoped will take place at a bilateral summit in Brussels on 27 October – but which is hanging on Belgium’s internal approval process.
On Monday evening, EU member states’ sherpas on COREPER were again due to validate draft decisions by the Council of the EU on the signing of CETA on behalf of the EU and its provisional...