{"id":11010,"date":"2013-10-19T04:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eu-strikes-trade-deal-with-canada-looks-to-u-s\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T04:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T04:42:59","slug":"eu-strikes-trade-deal-with-canada-looks-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eu-strikes-trade-deal-with-canada-looks-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Strikes Trade Deal with Canada, Looks to U.S"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3804 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uyio.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{The European Union and Canada agreed a multibillion-dollar trade pact on Friday that will integrate two of the world&#8217;s largest economies and pave the way for Europe to clinch an even bigger deal with the United States.}}<\/p>\n<p>The deal will make Canada the only G8 country to have preferential access to the world&#8217;s two largest markets, the EU and the United States, home to a total of 800 million people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the biggest deal our country has ever made,&#8221; Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Brussels, adding that it outstripped the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between the two sides launched in May 2009 but stalled for months over quotas for Canadian beef and EU cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Harper and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso met in Brussels to resolve outstanding issues and seal the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In a cheeky touch, chefs served Italian gorgonzola and Greek feta cheese at a four-course lunch laid on for the two leaders to celebrate the deal, which EU trade chief Karel De Gucht called a &#8220;template&#8221; for negotiations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The European Union and Canada agreed a multibillion-dollar trade pact on Friday that will integrate two of the world&#8217;s largest economies and pave the way for Europe to clinch an even bigger deal with the United States.}} The deal will make Canada the only G8 country to have preferential access to the world&#8217;s two largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000048867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048867,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11010.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}