Yea he was due to travel to conclude a deal however looking at the free trade deals already made by the EU with non EU countries like Canada shows they are not all what they are cracked up to be
Even inside Europe there’s a lot of bitterness the common agricultural policy fisheries policy the steel policy was not exactly warmly received in the UK or Norway the later forced their government into an election because of it
Canada’s free trade deal has been hurting western Canadian farmers who want out of the deal
Given that Australia has a similar economy to Canada in terms of exports it’s reasonable to assume that similar arrangements would likely to be made
Free trade agreements are not overly good in general and many countries around the world have complained to the WTO about European deals over the last decade and half
Even the German DW team made a big documentary about it all
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