In a televised address to the French on Wednesday, the French president described Russia as a 'threat to France and Europe,' and said he wanted to confer with European allies on using France's nuclear deterrent to protect Europe.
Not as big an ask as you’re probably thinking. In the end, they’ve always (just barely) voted to stay for the convenience. If we were to join the Schengen area and the single market going forward, and maybe even the EU itself, it wouldn’t really be a problem if they were technically a separate nation within it.
It was a “shotgun marriage” by the colonial British in the first place, and as far as I can tell enthusiasm for the arrangement was never that high among ordinary Anglo Canadians, either. I hear “they should just leave so we never have to talk about it again” semi-often IRL.
Not as big an ask as you’re probably thinking. In the end, they’ve always (just barely) voted to stay for the convenience. If we were to join the Schengen area and the single market going forward, and maybe even the EU itself, it wouldn’t really be a problem if they were technically a separate nation within it.
It was a “shotgun marriage” by the colonial British in the first place, and as far as I can tell enthusiasm for the arrangement was never that high among ordinary Anglo Canadians, either. I hear “they should just leave so we never have to talk about it again” semi-often IRL.
I know there probably would not be that many issues with it but I was proposing it as a joke.