On Tuesday 25 October, strong opinions were expressed at a press conference about the blocking of the EU’s signing of the EU-Canada free-trade agreement, CETA. The heads of the European Parliament’s political groups were speaking on the fringes of the plenary, with the head of the EPP, Germany’s Manfred Weber, and ALDE, Belgium’s Guy Verhofstadt, criticising the mixed nature of the agreement.
CETA is not dead, said Weber, adding that everything would be done to enable Belgium to...