A free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union has been approved by German lawmakers. Lawmakers in Germany voted 559-110 to approve the pact.
have yet to ratify the deal, Verena Hubertz, a lawmaker with Scholz's center-left Social Democrats, told parliament's lower house before the vote.
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Shulz's three-party coalition ratified a free-trade deal between the European Union and Canada."We are optimistic, now that we are moving forward, that others will also follow very quickly," she said."But of course ... this is much too long and much too slow in a globalized world that turns quickly."
Hubertz said Germany had to wait for the court verdict and added that"we have eliminated concerns" about details of a dispute mechanism built into the pact. Conservative opposition lawmakers argued that little or nothing has actually changed and charged that the center-left had held up ratification for ideological reasons.
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