Visibly shaken, as Reuters
put it, Canadian trade minister Chrystia Freeland walked out of EU
trade negotiations in Belgium on Friday evening, lamenting that the EU
is “incapable of reaching an agreement – even with a country with
European values such as Canada.”
A big trade deal that had taken years to negotiate, mostly in total
secrecy, had just collapsed. So how in the world did such a
mega screw-up happen?
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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