• @[email protected]
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    And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.

    I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.

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      40 is three million more than Ukraine, both in between Spain and Poland. Having a couple more mid-sized countries would enable integration of Turkey which eeks out Germany in terms of population.

    • @Treczoks
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      The EU is talking to Turkey about membership (on and off…), and I would say that Canada is more European than Turkey.

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        Actual membership for Turkey hasn’t been a serious option for a long time. Turkey knows it, EU knows it. There simply is no other label than “candidate” that could better describe what TR means to the EU. They want to keep it as close as possible, and TR benefits from it, a lot. A symbiosis, if you will. As for the Switzerland model, the EU clearly stated, multiple times, that they don’t want to repeat the unholy mess of relations they created with CH and, in fact, would rather transform it to something in line with stock EU foreign policy.

      • @Stovetop
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        Canada even shares a border with Europe, so I would say it’s close enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 day ago

      As the EU mostly does not decide population based but with equal votes per country that wouldn’t be an issue.

      The larger issue is the fact that the European and US regulations clash in a lot of things so it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.

      But otherwise: We would absolutely welcome you.

      • Tiefling IRL
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        it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.

        I don’t think that’s gonna be a problem soon

        • @T00l_shed
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          213 hours ago

          If the orange turd rips it up at will, the Canadian government should too