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International Trade committee Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank all of you very much. I am always happy to come back.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee No, I mean we are the first trading partner for 80 countries worldwide.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee What we will be signing or what we are hoping to achieve with the U.S. is also a very comprehensive agreement. It's a trade and investment agreement. It will be different. It will not be identical, but I think it will also be a very ambitious agreement.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee It's very difficult, because the negotiations with the U.S. only started not so long ago. But the intention is to be ambitious. I am not expert enough to compare how far-reaching it will be, but at this moment this is the most comprehensive and ambitious agreement that the Euro
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Well, the agriculture sector is very important. The agricultural policy route of the European Union is, for example, an exclusive competence. It is always an important sector in any country worldwide. It's always a very sensitive sector also, and therefore I don't want to minimiz
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee I just want to repeat first of all, that CETA has nothing to do with GMOs. Second, GMOs are not a non-tariff barrier.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Could you repeat the question? Sorry.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee It's going very well because it's not questioning one of the basic elements of the agreement on which there is a political breakthrough. I think we had foreseen that it should end by the end of this month. We are nearly at the end of this month. I think we might have a slight del
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee I certainly will pass on your appreciation to our negotiating team. I must say that Canada is an important trade partner for the European Union. Trade is now very considerably.... As I said, Canada is the twelfth trading partner of the European Union and the fourth investor in t
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee I'm honestly convinced it will boost trade, for the reasons I've given. But it is an opportunity that will have to be seized by the business people themselves. As I said, the trade agreement itself will not boost trade. It will need the intervention of the companies and the busin
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee They will have none, no impact. We will deal with our skeptics. The Euro-skeptics are more skeptical about some internal issues within the European Union, but I would say they are seldom skeptical about external trade relations. Trade is the motor of an economy of growth of empl
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Thank you for your question. It is true that environmental standards are very important for the European Union. The E.U. is a leader in that regard, and its environmental legislation is among the most advanced in the world. I should mention that I have visited four provinces up
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Thank you for your question. There is no connection between the GMO issue and CETA. This is not covered by CETA.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Yes, but this will be dealt with separately from the agreement. It has nothing to do with that agreement.
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx
International Trade committee Karsten, do you have any information on that?
January 30th, 2014Committee meeting
H.E. Marie-Anne Coninsx