This is the best summary I could come up with:
BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada that has been criticized by farmers as bringing unfair competition from abroad.
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, provisionally went into effect in September 2017 after all EU governments agreed to it, but its full implementation requires approval by each national parliament.
French senators’ vote comes after farmers across France and Europe demonstrated on their tractors earlier this year in protests over low earnings, heavy regulation and what they call unfair competition from abroad, often criticizing free-trade agreements, including the CETA.
Arnaud Gaillot, president of the Young Farmers union, pointed to the “lack of guarantees” provided by the CETA regarding Canada’s alignment on EU standards that “would have threatened our livestock sector.”
The Confederation Paysanne, a farmers’ union, said in a statement that the European market of beef meat would be “deeply impacted” if the agreement was to become definitive.
“Those who rejected this agreement will have to explain tomorrow to French wine and spirits producers why they risk losing the markets they have been developing since 2017 in Canada,” saids the president of the federation, Gabriel Picard.
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Funny enough, I’ve heard the beef in Europe is terrible, so maybe they should be afraid (from a selfish perspective).
CETA has been operating for a good long time now on a provisional basis. This doesn’t mean it’s dead, right?