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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 day ago

View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 day ago
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View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU - Policy Magazine
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Among the possibilities is the expansion of the European Union as a liberal counterweight to autocratic hegemony, most interestingly to include what Prime
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    As Canada isn’t in Europe, some renaming has to happen… perhaps Freedom Union?

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      That term has been thoroughly tainted.

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        Only in one certain country, so it works.

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      A union of nation states that value freedom.

      United States of Freedom?

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      French Guyana isn’t in Europe either and nobody cares, so there’s precedent.

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        Yes, and both French Guyana and Canada have the same economic power. And so have the Caribbean overseas territories of France and the Netherlands.

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          Your point being?

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      How about Canada becomes an EU colony overseas territory instead of a full member?

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