Canada to be EU’s 28th member? Nearly half of Canadians say yes
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/33942209
The European Commission isn't strictly ruling it out either.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/canada-to-be-eus-28th-member-nearly-half-of-canadians-say-yes/
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I said this the first time Trump was elected
It’s too dangerous to be in the wild while the US is focused on imperialism.
The EU is more similar to Canadian attitudes than the US is, though we are halfway in between.
Closer to France than Hungary is, and they're in the EU already.
As a Canadian I am all for this.
I think there are unnecessary complications with joining the EU and maybe we should just focus on joining the shengen zone more similar to iceland and norway to make it happen quicker
Edit: I'm stoned right now but I'm just trying to imagine how we would retrofit every single car with EU regulated headlights for example haha. And those ugly ass long rectangle license plates. Canada has the coolest license plates in the world
Per your edit: Does joining the EU require retroactive compliance? Or is it just "follow these standards going forward"?
Good question I don't know the answer to.
From The website, it seems as though we have change our regulations, then we can apply to join the EU (and also be a European nation, but that's a different thing).
I neither want to become part of the USA nor part of the EU, although between the two, the EU is obviously preferable.
At least you are still a country when in the EU and can leave if you want to.
Canexit when?
This still seems wildly unlikely for so many reasons. Canada needs new trade partners and at this point some defense guarantees, but joining the EU is a long shot.
And it's one that will take too long to have any bearing on current challenges anyway.
That said, Dumpster's moves are mostly ridiculous because he's trying to speed run something that was coming eventually. He's just skipping the rather slow but crucial propaganda step to manufacture consent, and trying to de-integrate our economies at self-immolating speed.
I think it might be a good idea to explore membership in the Schengen Area and/or European Free Trade Association, but full EU membership is more trouble than it's worth and Eurozone membership (giving up our currency) carries serious drawbacks alongside benefits I wouldn't expect to fully realize with our geographic separation.
We can and should be looking for better economic integration as part of our trade diversification. But we also need to preserve our own internal autonomy and power, and shouldn't be expecting any meaningful protection from across the pond. I mean maybe fellow Commonwealth states will militarily support us, but not likely the EU, and definitely not within a decade. We're not like Ukraine who sit between them and a hostile neighboring state, softening the latter without costing EU lives.
two birds one stone, no?
Oh god please join the EU, so I can go through the trouble of claiming ancestral citizenship in Europe and be able to live in Canada instead.
@RandAlThor Australia first, we are already in the ESC ;)
Lol all former British colonies join the EU after Brexit
I like the idea I do but I think the CANZUK is more likely the four countries share so much more than we do with the EU. Only problem I have with it is we would still have the royal family on our coins.
That’s not happening. The #1 requirement to join the EU is … <drum rolls…> to be in Europe.
There is no law of nature that demands this. These rules were written by people. They can be changed and bent by people as well.
You're gonna be seeing a lot of changes very soon. Don't go thinking the neoliberal status quo is some default state of the world. The US is fascist now.
You want to bet on Canada joining the EU before Trump’s term ends?