Cecilia Malmström Photo: Erik Nylander/TT
After sorry gala dinner in the castle in Bratislava invites you to Friday’s part of the informal meeting on the tough discussions about the TTIP agreement with the USA and Ceta agreement with Canada.
France and its trade minister Matthias Fekl leads the resistance against the TTIP, but hardly get a hearing for their requests to suspend the discussions with the united states.
“We are 28 countries, and they are 28 countries that have given us the mandate and it is not one or two countries that may suddenly decide to now, we will stop to negotiate,” says Cecilia Malmström.
Next round the united states all the way to week 40. At the same time, it seems increasingly clear that TTIP will not go as previously planned, during Barack Obama’s time as president.
Sweden’s EU minister Ann Linde (S) notes that it can take over next year’s elections in France and Germany before the TTIP-the question moving forward again.
” It’s probably a realistic assessment. But our interest is then to continue as far as you can get, and then possibly take it a little slower. Our absolute interest is that you do not cancel the negotiation because of temporary political fluctuations, ” says Linde.
the Ceta, at the same time out to be able to get support from the EU-countries after the thumbs up lately from France as well as Germany’s social democrats. In Austria – which increasingly emerged as the Ceta opponents of the number one – now appeal the industry to the government to say yes.
” We are apparently afraid of free trade, despite the fact that we know that a small country like Austria is dependent on free trade. We are destroying our image, warned Georg Kapsch, president of the federation of industry (IV, after a meeting with Canada’s trade minister, Chrystia Freeland in Vienna on Thursday, according to news agency APA.
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