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Will Ceta apply even if Parliament does not vote on it?

2020-06-12T15:06:14.482Z


VERIFICATION - The free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada has not yet been ratified by France, but applies provisionally. Will it remain in force regardless of the vote of parliamentarians?


THE QUESTION. Questioned by the deputy (LREM) Martine Leguille-Balloy the day before a meeting, on June 9, with her European counterparts in charge of trade, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne answered a question on Ceta , the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. We are in provisional operations until the national parliaments have not completed the ratification processes. The investment part does not come into force and only the commercial part is provisionally in force. (…) It is a provisional one which can last ”, declared the minister.

A " provisional that can last ". It was enough to worry the opponents of this treaty, which arouses in France mistrust or even hostility among certain farmers, cattle breeders in particular, and among environmentalists. On social networks, the suspicions of denial of democracy started again. Canadian meat imports and

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Source: lefigaro

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