{"id":2538,"date":"2017-01-24T04:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2017-04-01T05:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T09:42:56","slug":"european-parliaments-trade-committee-endorses-canadas-free-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/european-parliaments-trade-committee-endorses-canadas-free-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament&#8217;s trade committee endorses Canada&#8217;s free trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>European Parliament&#8217;s trade committee endorses Canada&#8217;s free trade deal<\/h1>\n<p>A planned EU-Canada free trade deal moved closer to reality on Tuesday after a key committee advised the European Parliament to give its backing after months of protests and heated debate.<\/p>\n<p>The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is seen as a test of Europe&#8217;s ability to forge future trade accords and as a counterweight to anticipated protectionism under new U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters at the cabinet retreat in Calgary that this was &#8220;an important moment for Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trump&#8217;s top economic adviser says Trudeau shouldn&#8217;t be &#8216;enormously worried&#8217; about NAFTA renegotiation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trump to meet with auto execs Tuesday and push for more American jobs<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more than just a free trade treaty with Canada. It&#8217;s a statement about how we relate with the rest of the world,&#8221; said Sorin Moisa, CETA co-ordinator for the centre-left Socialists\u00a0and\u00a0Democrats Group, whose members have been divided over the pact. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/ceta-brussels-trade-committee-vote-1.3949522\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>European Parliament&#8217;s trade committee endorses Canada&#8217;s free trade deal<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Parliament&#8217;s trade committee endorses Canada&#8217;s free trade deal A planned EU-Canada free trade deal moved closer to reality on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}