"Magnette persistently denied that he wanted to tank the trade deal, but that’s what Wallonia’s veto effectively achieved Friday, when Canadian Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland fought back her tears to call time on Ottawa’s seven-year battle to conclude a trade deal with Europe.
Magnette was in need of a popular cause to rally his troops, all too aware that Belgium’s Marxist PTB party was making deep inroads into his core constituency because of Wallonia’s mounting economic woes. Last month, the U.S. construction equipment maker Caterpillar compounded the French-speaking region’s problems by announcing that it was closing its branch in Gosselies, near Charleroi. The closure will cost Wallonia and Belgium 2,200 jobs directly, and several thousands of jobs at affiliated companies."
http://www.politico.eu/article/meet-monsieur-paul-magnette-the-man-killing-ceta-deal-trade-agreement/
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