While reaffirming the need to ensure that it is "well implemented", Emmanuel Macron said Monday that a ratification of Ceta, the free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, would go " in the right direction".

Emmanuel Macron said Monday that a ratification of Ceta, the free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, would "go in the right direction", while reaffirming the need to ensure that it is " well implemented ".

The head of state said he "read the platform" Nicolas Hulot calling the parliamentarians to have "the courage to say no" in the vote Tuesday. "I believe that the real idealism is always to look at the real," he added, pointing out that the former minister had "fought to improve" the text of the agreement.