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Leo Varadkar says Ireland’s delay in ratifying EU-Canada trade deal sends out ‘wrong message’ to world
Michelle Devane
Updated: 14:04, 26 May 2021
IRELAND s delay in ratifying the EU-Canada trade deal sends out the wrong message to the world, the Tanaiste has warned.
Leo Varadkar said Ireland has an even bigger responsibility as a champion of free trade since Brexit and that ratification of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) drifting indefinitely would negatively impact investment and employment in the country.
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European Council President Donald Tusk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pose after the joint press conference and the signing of the CETA trade deal in 2016Credit: AFP - Getty
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All the World Leaders Who Have Denounced Belarus So Far After Dissident Journalist Detained
On 5/25/21 at 8:18 PM EDT
Since the weekend, multiple world leaders have publicly denounced the Belarus government after it diverted a Ryanair plane to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
On Monday, Protasevich, 26, appeared in a video shared to a pro-Belarus social media platform to state that he s cooperating with authorities. The attitude of the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees towards me has been as correct as possible and in compliance with the law, he said in the video, as translated by CNN. I continue to cooperate with the investigation and have confessed to organizing mass riots in the city of Minsk.