Brigitte Zypries and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, was supposed to be signed in a formal ceremony on September 26. The text of the proposed agreement had been finalized on August 5, 2014, after months of wrangling, according to Deutsche Welle. Brigitte Zypries, deputy minister of the German economic affairs ministry, declined to give background details on who intervened to halt the process and why and A free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union that was agreed in principle in August appears to have been put on ice for the time being. The deal was expected to serve as a blueprint for a similar agreement with the United States called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and that may be one reason why has been put on hold. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.