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[โ€“] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

How hard is it to move a country to get it into the EU?

Assuming you don't have a couple hundred million years.

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[โ€“] digital_digger@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense because right now UE is running so smooothly. Everyone interests are aligned.

[โ€“] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

That would be wonderful!

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It kinda makes sense when you thinkabout greenland.

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[โ€“] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (10 children)

We should develop much closer commercial and other ties (eg regulatory) with the EU but Canada should not outright join. We don't need the Euro and we don't need the European Stability and Growth Pact. Lower as many barriers, but we have to keep control of our basic economic policy levers.

Edit: by the way, after looking it up, I'm finding that EU rules about "State Aid" would make the new NDP platform (Avi Lewis campaigned on public options and Crown corporations for various sectors, and buy-canadian rules to protect workers during the green transition) infeasible. So... no, I'm not interested in joining an economic bloc that makes democratic socialism functionally impossible.

[โ€“] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Similar to the deal the UK got?

[โ€“] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The UK was in, fucked up and crashed out. It also has some very weird peculiarities due to the Good Friday Agreement.

I suspect a version of the Swiss model is probably best for Canada, with high integration and Schengen membership but done very granularly on a bilateral basis.

Edit, I changed my mind, see above.

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[โ€“] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social -3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

What is kinda wild to me is that I have read about a dozen articles like this and not one of them actually indicates what benefit Canada would get from joining the EU, apart from 'we all know that America sucks', but being in the EU doesn't actually solve that either.

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

not one of them actually indicates what benefit Canada would get from joining the EU

Do you just fundamentally not understand what the EU is, or are you looking for some specific details?

[โ€“] timestatic@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

One economic union without hurdles, freedom of movement inside the schengen area? Increased cooperation between other EU member states? Haven't you heard Carney's speech about middle powers?

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