  {"id":8162,"date":"2016-10-27T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:01","slug":"eurus-professors-comment-ceta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2016\/eurus-professors-comment-ceta\/","title":{"rendered":"EURUS Professors Comment on CETA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        EURUS Professors Comment on CETA\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>EURUS Professor Crina Viju was one of the signatories of an open letter by sixteen Canadian academics, calling for a reasoned debate on the&nbsp;EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and defending the agreement&nbsp;against a number of erroneous assertions. The open letter can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eucanet.org\/news\/media-tips\/341-open-letter-the-european-and-canadian-public-needs-a-reasoned-debate-on-ceta\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EURUS Director Achim Hurrelmann commented on the&nbsp;EU&#8217;s difficulties in approving CETA in various media interviews. He participated in a one-hour special broadcast by the German radio station hr2 in which he explained the Canadian perspective on the EU&#8217;s difficulties in approving CETA and also commented on the lessons that can be learned from this experience for democracy in the EU.&nbsp;A podcast of the broadcast &#8212; in German &#8212; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr-online.de\/website\/radio\/hr2\/index.jsp?rubrik=14224&amp;key=standard_podcasting_derTag&amp;mediakey=podcast\/derTag\/derTag_20161025_71701895&amp;type=a\">here<\/a>. The interview with Professor Hurrelmann is in the last 10 minutes of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EURUS Professor Crina Viju was one of the signatories of an open letter by sixteen Canadian academics, calling for a reasoned debate on the&nbsp;EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and defending the agreement&nbsp;against a number of erroneous assertions. The open letter can be viewed here. EURUS Director Achim Hurrelmann commented on the&nbsp;EU&#8217;s difficulties in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}