Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and its member states. It has been provisionally applied, thus removing 98% of the preexisting tariffs between the two parts.
The Stop TTIP-CETA protest in Brussels, Belgium, 20 September 2016
Banner opposing CETA at the Walloon Parliament in Namur on 19 October 2016.
Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017, which made him the party's longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt. He was the Federal Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2009 and the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 2013 to 2017. From 1999 to 2003 Gabriel was Minister-President of Lower Saxony.
Gabriel in 2018
Sigmar Gabriel with Angela Merkel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier; in the background are Christian Schmidt and Ursula von der Leyen, 2014.
Gabriel meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, 16 July 2015.
Gabriel and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington, D.C., 17 May 2017