Former German Foreign Minister Gabriel proposes Canada's EU membership
Former German Foreign Minister Gabriel proposes Canada's EU membership
Der frühere Bundesaußenminister Gabriel hat vorgeschlagen, Kanada in die EU aufzunehmen.
But then we Europeans would have a border with the USA.
Not sure if I want that.
Perhaps a line comprised of the northernmost US states could form a separate country as a buffer zone.
"The Union of Somewhat Less Barbaric States of Northern America" or something
You mean they'd elect someone to say that the
EuropeanAtlantic Union should be a US state or else?
Okay everyone, time to get started working on a Eurovision entry.
I mean, arguably, conditions permitting, you don't necessarily need to be an actual, full fledged member of anything to participate. But in any case, yes, please do, we need new blood.
Yeap. Look at us here in Australia. In Eurovision and we don't belong to shit.
Send Faouzia please. She's badass.
I know everyone in the Eurovision fandom keeps telling me that Morocco should participate again and have her as the representative, but nah, I think Canada is the better choice (I am Moroccan).
Our borders are sound, and we're not at war.
We have a land border with Denmark and a Sea border with France.
Let's go !
Was about to say that: Sea border wise you are closer to France than the British are.
(Fun fact: Do you know which country has the longest land border to France? .....it's Brazil)
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I'm not sure how the EU charter works for geographic limits, but Canada would be a phenomenal addition to the market, especially since the US is about to blow up NAFTA and other trade agreements with Canada and Mexico.
If I'm not mistaken, per article 49 of the Treaty on European Union, it can't.
Any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union. The European Parliament and national Parliaments shall be notified of this application. The applicant State shall address its application to the Council, which shall act unanimously after consulting the Commission and after receiving the consent of the European Parliament, which shall act by a majority of its component members. The conditions of eligibility agreed upon by the European Council shall be taken into account.
The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the Union is founded, which such admission entails, shall be the subject of an agreement between the Member States and the applicant State. This agreement shall be submitted for ratification by all the contracting States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
For example, Morocco tried applying, but was rejected because it wasn't considered an "European State". So, from my point of view, either EU amends the article to allow non-European countries to join (maybe on the basis of cultural similarities? anyways, I don't think it's even feasible), or an special agreement/set of agreements to integrate it in the EU without actually making it part of the EU.
The US offers sheer strength, but can no longer be counted on for security or reliability. The Canadian government is smart for examining their options.
That would be so cool if I could visit Canada without any visa or other shit.
Most EU countries have visa-free entry into Canada IIRC. I know you have to submit an eta but those are cheap and quickly approved
Or better yet, visit Canada and every other EU country with just one visa, instead of several dozen for each. Yeah, not every EU country is part of Schengen, and there are non-EU countries that are, but I always thought this is cool.
My country does require a visa for EU entry despite being literally 14km away from one of its members, separated only by the Strait of Gibraltar, so I'm not really that lucky. But I least I wouldn't have to go through the tedious visa application process all over again.
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Well Canada, you know what that means...:
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Canadian Dominion btw, it's not like they got the letters of "Canada" jumbled up their official name is just weird.
I honestly always thought it was CanaDiaN
I would have loved to use CAN or CA instead, but that's their international vehicle registration code and rules are rules.. :)
Finally an option that doesn't involve "negotiating" with a dementia-ridden publicity whore. I'd vote YES!!!
Well, we have our fair share of "red states" in the EU unfortunately...
As Canada is a country roughly the size of Poland it would seem to be beneficial to join the EU (pop. 441m) with a balance of right- and left-wing views. Better than being economically and culturally tied to the death-cult in the US.
Life imitates art, and that art is the board game Twilight Struggle.
(It's a Cold War simulator, played on a world map, and Canada counts as Europe for game purposes.)
I literally screamed OH SHIT! as I saw this
As a Canadian I feel like this would be such a huge win for us.
Gonna be real the NAFTA 2.0/USMCA trade agreement seems shaky at best, horrendously unstable at worst so maintaining current trade relations doesn't seem sustainable unfortunately.
While we're making crazy changes to the timeline, can I suggest one more? Let's get Britain to finally depose the monarchy. With nowhere else to go, the House of Windsor flees to North America. We now refer to, "Charles, King of Canada."
Spain too, please. He can go "rule" Nicaragua or something, idk
Canadians are totally on board for this
Maybe call it something other than the European Union in that case?
Dominion of the Europeans and their former colonies? Just to annoy the unitedstatesians
We can have colonies in North America again.
Alright Britain, calm down now
Yeah, I would definitely appreciate it! I like the Canadians.
Edit: Cbviously Canadians want it too: https://feddit.org/post/7162395
This would be a nightmare for Canada. Their regulations are all aligned with the US. Products would need to be adjusted, processes would need to be changed, entire product stocks would need to be offloaded. And it would make lots of Canadian products unexportable to the US.
Even something as simple as eggs have incompatible regulations in Europe and North America.
Well washing the natural protection layers off from eggs and then having to cool them is pretty stupid, so it's obvious who should adjust their standards
Products would need to be adjusted
O no what a nightmare
When your economy is geared to exporting mostly to a country that will not accept products made according to the new rules it is.
For the regulations, I think slowly changing them to fit to EU standards, so industries can catch up, would be the best.
As for exports towards the US, aren't there already institutions (like the Trade and Technology Council) used by US and EU for trade to be efficient despite regulation and standard diferences?
Of course, I don't much about anything, so I'm mostly throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
Ukrainian regulations were/ are all aligned with Russian ones, take a guess how the future looks like for that arrangement.
And after 3 years of negotiations and Ukraine being probably the fastest country to adapt their laws in the history of enlargements they are still nowhere near close to be aligned with the EU on internal market rules.
If Trump pulls through with his plans to invade Canada and Greenland, the only Canadian products exportable to the US are artillery grenades and bullets anyway.
The White House has been looking a lot more burnable than it did in the past tbh
So you are saying LTT merch without tarifs? Nice!
Just gotta get those undies with the Linus Sex Tips rim for all my work besties, and cheap! /s
Wait, so would this be in exchange for Greenland?
/S