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Canada EU associate membership negotiations 2026
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FIRST ENTRY SEP 16
SEP 16 · Day 1
Canada invited to become EU's first associate member
Trump has repeatedly talked of making Canada a '51st state'.
Associate membership of the EU does not currently exist and the process, if agreed, could take years.
Ten of the EU's 27 members have not yet ratified the free-trade agreement struck with Ottawa nearly a decade ago.
“It is not necessarily against the U.S., but it is clearly in favor of making us less dependent on the U.S. and less dependent on China, and that deeper partnership with other countries, like-minded democracies, is actually something we see in the economic re-arm,”
HOLGER SCHMIEDING
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