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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52558022
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_ From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations._
EXCLUSIVE - BRUSSELS — The EU and Canada will use a landmark summit next month to announce an expansive new partnership, ranging from breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires.
“The world is rapidly changing with unprecedented geopolitical challenges as well as challenges across trade, energy, technology, climate, and resources,” reads a draft joint statement to be issued by the two sides, circulated to EU ambassadors in preparation for the planned summit that begins on Oct. 29, and obtained by POLITICO.
The EU and Canada have been seeking to shore up their strategic ties as they grapple with the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this month proposed inviting Canada to become an associate member of the EU, triggering an immediate threat by Trump to impose tariffs.
“Canada and the EU, with our unparalleled trade access, shared values, and complementary economic strengths, can build a deeper and more integrated relationship,” the draft paper says.
The two sides plan to say at their summit in Montreal that they want to speed up investment in critical mineral projects, strengthen supply chains, and improve supply security, including by stockpiling critical resources to mitigate “market fluctuations and geopolitical impacts.”
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Here’s hoping we get an EU-CAD alternative to VISA/MC
This is a win for both sides. Keep at it! I like where things are headed.
Maybe the EU will be able to stop Bill C-22
It will compel telecommunications providers to identify without a warrant whether individuals under reasonable suspicion of criminal activity are users of their services, and requires “electronic service providers” to assist in providing data to law enforcement when requested
Holy shit that bill’s awful.
Doubt it, the EU has attempted to pass such laws themselves in the past.
I understood that they’re being pressured from within to step up against it, and that it was actually a thorn in trade talks. But that could just be spin, I’m not sure.
Then why bring in similar bills after one failed. Europe is not the utopia everyone thinks.
I’m not saying it’s a utopia, just having hope.
Uh, yes please.
Let’s hope this strengthens both Canada and the EU in response to the bullying from South-Canada. :p
Interesting. I guess let’s see what they have in mind.
Politico shared the leaked document:
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30/EU-Canada-conclusions.pdf
Tbh, I find it painful to get through all the small-l liberal nonsense moralism and civilizational branding that both sides continually fail to actually live up to, and which Carney called out in his Davos speech but is now apparently back on the table, but it’s worth reading.
God forbid there should be some aspirational goals in it. Cementing a partnership should be purely transactional and have neither lofty vision nor unifying affirmations of shared values.
Its a lot of promises of intentions without a lot of specifics. The one that does look more solid is the invitation to the PM to their summits. I assume it means no vote, but giving Canada a presence is a good signal to start, anyway.
As the EU finally emerges from its collective PTSD and devastation of the wars, it is once again signalling to the rest of the world that it is back to its former world leadership position, and Canada is more than willing to join with it. It will be very refreshing to have Europe restored to its old post-war glory on the world stage.
Which post war glory?
We’ll be waist deep in islamophobia, Russiaphobia, and genocide white washing soccer games in no time!
We already have Islamophobia, Russophobia is justified and deserved, and simply using the word genocide doesn’t clarify whatever broadly disparaging point you’re trying to make.
Ah yes. The “genocide is meaningless” retort. Well played.
That’s what you took from my comment?
If you’re having trouble understanding, you can get help from AI. It’s free.
Feel free to move wherever you feel has never done anything wrong. I mwqn you don’t have to stay here since you feel songuikty about being here. Novodybis stopping you.
Ah yes, the old “buckle up or get lost” response.
The fact is that no one is stopping you from moving to where you’re happier.
In the immortal words of Stompin Tom: “If you don’t believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by living somewhere else.”
And if one is stuck in a country that they don’t like anymore, I would hope they have the dignity and integrity not to vote in elections that they don’t believe in, or involve themselves in politics that they are actively poisoning. I should think the primary goal should be to move to where they fit in.
Carney is eroding the right to bargain, dismantling environment standards and labeling anti-genocide protestors hate criminals and you have the gall to say I’m “poisoning politics?”
Typical neolib. Begging to be owned by the same corporations that control MAGA.
Regarding collective bargaining and environmental policy: We’re in the middle of an historic economic restructuring and he’s going to get some leeway, particularly given his expertise, in how he executes on that. I may not agree with everything he does, but I’m also not naive enough to think that we don’t have to sacrifice in some places.
Bill C9 expressly does not make criticism of Israel, advocacy for Palestinians or peaceful political protest a hate crime. Carney said that specifically, and the government openly recognized Palestinian statehood, and I’m glad they did.
When you misrepresent everything in a hyperbolic way it diminishes your overall credibility, as does connecting your opponent to vile organizations like MAGA without any justification whatsoever. You know nothing about me, but from your comments I have the sense I know just as much as I need to know about you.
That’s a crock.
He’s Harper 2.0 and you know it.
