The agreement reached in the morning of Thursday 27 October between the Belgian federal government and Belgian regions to enable three of the latter – the Walloon region, the Brussels-Capital region and the Wallonia-Brussels federation – to lift their veto on Belgium’s approval of the EU signing a free-trade deal with Canada (CETA) paved the way for the approval by the EU28 using the written procedure by midnight on Friday 28 October for the EU to sign the free-trade deal, as long as...