During a debate at the European Parliament plenary on Wednesday 26 October, the leaders of all the European Parliament’s political groups regretted, for different reasons, the blockages at the Council on the signing of the EU-Canada free-trade agreement (CETA) and on the plan to update the EU’s trade defence instruments (TDIs).
Opening the debate, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, pointed out that the EU28’s leaders had decided to react to the growing challenges in...