On Tuesday 24 January, MEPs from the European Parliament's international trade (INTA) committee adopted (25 votes in favour, 15 against and one abstention) the draft recommendation by Artis Pabriks (EPP, Latvia) to ratify and provisionally implement the EU-Canada free trade agreement (CETA) that was signed on 30 November 2016.
"This is a strong and important signal in favour of the regulation of globalisation", the chair of the INTA committee, Bernd Lange (S&D, Germany), was pleased to...