European Union governments put off giving their verdict on the EU’s draft trade agreement with Canada as they sought more time to overcome a political split in Belgium.
Trade ministers from the 28-nation EU discussed the Canada accord on Tuesday in Luxembourg while separate talks continue in a bid to address concerns in Belgium’s French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The pact, the EU’s first commercial deal with a fellow member of the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries, needs the support of all the bloc’s governments as well as the European Parliament to take provisional effect in 2017.
