EU finalises free trade agreement with Canada

Abstract:

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (the government department dealing with these policies in Canada) announced on the 5 August 2014 that officials from the EU and Canada had reached agreement on a final text of the European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), allowing translation and final legal review to commence.

An EU-Canada Summit would be hosted by Canada in September 2014.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Germany threatens to reject EU-Canada free trade deal http://www.europeansources.info/record/germany-threatens-to-reject-eu-canada-free-trade-deal/

Canada: Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada: News Release, 05.08.14: Complete Canada-EU Text Reached http://www.international.gc.ca/media/comm/news-communiques/2014/08/05b.aspx?lang=eng

Canada: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/en/content/ceta-aecg/canada-eu-trade-agreement

EU: EEAS: Canada http://eeas.europa.eu/canada/index_en.htm

European Commission: DG Trade: Policy: Countries and Regions: Canada http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/canada/

EUObserver, 06.08.14: EU and Canada negotiators reach agreement on trade deal http://euobserver.com/foreign/125203

Deutsche Welle, 02.09.14: Will Berlin nix the Canada-EU trade deal? http://dw.de/p/1D4zk

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