EU to Launch Free-Trade Talks With Canada at Prague Summit

(Toby Vogel — European Voice)

Member states want ‘enhanced’ trade deal. Canadian ambassador says his country is ‘enthusiastic’

Canada and the European Union are to launch free-trade talks at a summit in Prague on Wednesday (6 May) after the member states of the EU agreed on Monday (27 April) a negotiating mandate for an “enhanced” trade agreement with Canada.

Ross Hornby, Canada's ambassador to the EU, told European Voice that the negotiations would be “complex and comprehensive” and go beyond the market-opening foreseen by the World Trade Organization (WTO). “We are quite enthusiastic,” he said. […]

Bilateral trade in goods and services last year exceeded €70 billion, according to Commission figures. Read more here.