Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44418560

Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.

France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has floated the idea that Canada could one day join the European Union, using the transatlantic ally as a striking example of the bloc’s global appeal.

Speaking at the Europe 2026 conference in Berlin alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, Barrot argued that the EU is increasingly attracting partners far beyond its borders as geopolitical tensions soar.

Barrot’s Canada remark was not presented as a concrete policy proposal, but rather as part of a broader argument that the EU is emerging as a “third superpower” capable of balancing the rivalry between the United States and China.

  • JoshuaFalken
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    5 hours ago

    Interesting fact, though capital city to capital city, Canada is an order of magnitude further from France than it is to England.

    Also,

    ^might be more beneficial to copy paste text than to upload screenshots of said text so the size and formatting can jive with whatever device or client a person is using to read the comment^

    cheers!