EU and Canada plan deeper partnership on trade, security and defence | Sweden Herald
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The EU and Canada are working to deepen their relationship

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce the plans in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 16. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to attend and give a speech the following day.

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Carney and his government have made a deepened partnership with the EU their top priority and are looking at everything except actual EU membership, a Canadian source told Bloomberg.

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Both sides reportedly want to get as close as they legally can without Canada’s full EU membership … It is still undecided whether new legal tools are needed to anchor the arrangement.

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In February this year, the EU and Canada became the first non-European country to participate in the EU’s Security and Defence Partnership (SAFE).

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  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    That’s the double edged sword of how massive our trade with the US is. It will be impossible to replace with any single country, so even if major European countries go to shit, we will never have the reliance on them that we did on the US.