On Monday 24 October, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, decided in the late afternoon to allow more time to enable Belgium to agree to sign the EU-Canada free-trade deal (CETA). They also decided to keep the EU-Canada summit that was planned in Brussels for 27 October, hoping that CETA can be signed there.
Tusk tweeted shortly before 7.00pm after a telephone conversation with Trudeau that they thought the summit was still...