EU leaders may take until Friday to decide whether to proceed with Oct. 27 signing ceremony for CETA

European Union nations failed to endorse a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday, but remain optimistic they can do so by next week, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is due to fly over to sign it.

Where the EU foreign trade ministers failed, the EU leaders will now step in to try and clinch a deal when they meet for a two-day summit starting Thursday.

This has been excerpted from the 18 October 2016 news release edition of CBC News and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-european-union-ceta-trade-deal-1.3809600