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EU project in the balance? After Brexit, blowback over trade deal with Canada (part 1)

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After Brexit, Brussels is feeling the blowback against globalization much closer to home. Belgium's Wallonia region so far blocking a free trade deal between the EU and Canada. In the grand scheme, a trade agreement with Canada may not seem earth-shattering but that's precisely the point says Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau: If they can't agree on this, what can they agree on? Is it the credibility of the whole European project that's at stake?

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