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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Meloni looking like she doesnt even want to be there and is so annoyed

[–] Jackcooper 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What a shitty pic for 80% of them. Is that a full blown eye roll?

(I am for this group getting together like this, but what a badly timed photo for a bunch of people who professionally try to look good in photos)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I assume there are multiple cameras from multiple press agencies, so they're looking all over.

The one you're talking about probably hadn't blinked in a minute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Nah, she just let one rip, sending up a prayer that JT doesn't catch a whiff before the photo is snapped.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Unpopular take maybe…

Canada does not need to join the EU to increase trade and partnerships. More trade agreements and joint projects. The EU is a complicated political structure and joining it is unnecessarily complicateted.

[–] Diplomjodler3 5 points 4 hours ago

Absolutely correct. There are plenty of mutually beneficial arrangements short of full membership. And an EU membership application process typically takes decades. We need solutions now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever you guys wanna do. I support canada being eu but if yall dont want it trade agreements is also good.

[–] modeler 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They don't need to join it as a full member to have trade and economic benefits. Simple (!) alignment with standards and regulations will allow free access to the market and free movement of people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is there any reason to not join the EU if we want to align standards, regulations, and allow free movement?

The only thing I can think of that would be a hard change would be our dollar. We could possibly negotiate to keep that though - I don't know if the EU is still making exceptions like that or if that was just at the beginning.

[–] modeler 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The EU and US standards are very different and products for one can't necessarily be shipped to the other and vice versa. Examples for food include massive differences for colourings, preservatives and the like. Europe will not accept chicken washed in chlorinated water or bright froot loops. Health traffic lights are also going to be different.

While it's possible to have 2 production lines, 1 for each economic zone, that's expensive for producers and shippers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 45 minutes ago

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Canada's food standards with regards to dyes and preservatives are already far closer to the EU standard than the American.

[–] NoSpotOfGround 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think anyone in this picture seriously expects Canada to officially join the EU. The US would never allow such an interference with its manifest destiny. But we can make a close partnership even closer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

Not in the picture, but other folks in this posts comments are taking this possibility too seriously

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago

Canada: You know, I'm somewhat of a European myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

You beat me to it!

I was going to post this with the caption "Democracy's last stand" or something similar.

[–] reddig33 58 points 19 hours ago (13 children)

Would Canada be interested in joining the EU? Might make sense considering what a bad neighbor the US has become.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

At first glance it sounds good but joining the EU officially is unnecessarily complex. It would make more sense to join Europe similar to Iceland and Norway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

I would love to join the EU, my grandpa immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands after WW2 but Netherlands doesn't offer citizenship to grandchildren ):

Would be nice to have the freedom of travel to the EU and vice versa if anyone wants to come over and visit Canada.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

And Canada does have a land border with an EU country - Denmark. Canada and Denmark had a long standing border dispute over Hans island featuring multiple armed raids. It was resolved in a mature and sensible fashion to just divide the island. Good for all involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

multiple armed raids

I mean...technically....sure. But the two armed groups were never actually there at the same time. They simply came at different times to swap Whiskey and Schnaps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

I'd hate to be the custom's agent posted there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Canada also has land in France. The Vimy Ridge memorial is officially Canadian territory, granted by France.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

France also has St. Pierre and Miquelon that shares a border with Newfoundland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Maritime border. They are a couple km off the coast.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Canadian here, everybody I know would love this

[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Another Canadian here... yes please.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

I’m sorry but I I have to agree

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago

As a Canadian... we didn't know this was an option. But hell yeah, we'd join the EU.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

This Canadian would be happy to join.

I think the EU is waiting to see if we get PP or not since we're on the brink of stupidity like the US was. If we elect a PM interested in being a civilized member of the global stage, I think we'll be invited in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

hungary will block it probably

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

I would be happy if we at least could ratify CETA finally. Sheesh

[–] TomAwsm 0 points 8 hours ago

At the very least, Canada should be allowed to participate in the Eurovision song contest!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm doubtful full membership will ever happen, and even an EEA Norway-style agreement where we adopt 75% of the EU's laws without representation but keep our fishing and agricultural policies (pre-requisites for the Atlantic and Prairie Provinces to agree), would take decades to be negotiated, signed and ratified with all the dysfunctional, proportional representational governments in Europe right now.

There's been discussions about "associate membership" in the EU to bypass the European-ness requirement, but I don't think that's gotten any traction.

I would be grateful for any kind of free movement agreement that gains traction right now, even with CARICOM or MERCOSUR.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Nonsense those countries with proportional representation are more stable and perform better on a variety of issues.

They score higher on the democracy index than we do.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

with so many foreign troops fighting for russia in ukraine, there is zero justification for european troops not to be fighting with the ukranians as well. zero. every day that uk & france aren't mobilzing and deploying troops to ukraine is just more european stalling until complete abandonment

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

This is not accurate, there a lot of different peoples fighting in the war but conflict within Ukraine is fought under Ukrainian and Russian flags only. North Koreans are deployed in Kursk region of the Russian Federation.

Edit: Korean under NK flag, they have military engineers deployed in donas region in support role but i think they are actually under RF flag

But technically Russia already popped the cherry on this, I will agree... if NK can deploy into Russia for combat operations why would not an EU state do the same?

nUclEaR wAr🀑

[–] mean_bean279 9 points 19 hours ago

I think for the longest time the worry was that it would potentially be a NATO conflict. With Trump throwing everything out and them threatening to pull the US out of NATO I do sort of hope that gives Europe a reason to fight.

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