Without the support of the Greens and nearly a third of the Socialists and Social Democrats, the European Parliament will be called upon to give its consent, on Wednesday 15 February, to the provisional implementation of the free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA), hailed by its defenders as the most progressive bilateral free-trade agreement ever concluded in history.
Signed, painfully, on 30 October 2016 after a tense stand-off between, on the one hand, the Commission, the...