After the Senate, which has just rejected
the Ceta free trade agreement
, the Assembly also threatens to oppose the treaty between the European Union and Canada.
Led by the communists,
the deputies intended to take up this issue on May 30
, one week before the European elections.
This is what the executive intends to prevent, as announced by
the Minister for Foreign Trade, Franck Riester
, in Le
Figaro
.
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LE FIGARO.
- After the setback in the Senate, what does the government intend to do?
FRANK Riester.
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The National Assembly will once again have to decide on the ratification of the agreement.
The bill will be transmitted when the time comes, but not before the European elections, because this subject requires time for peaceful debate.
We do not want, as we saw in the Senate, for certain opposition groups to exploit this legitimate debate for electoral purposes.
The unnatural alliance in the Senate between the communist group and some of the LR senators is not only a shenanigan...
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