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EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

83 points · 170 comments · helsinkiandrew

  1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
    Would it not make sense to perhaps invite the UK to be an associate member first? We’re right on the doorstep.
    1. ben_w · · focus · HN ↗
      The UK will likely be welcome back right after everyone's confident Leave (be that Tory, Farage, or whoever the even worse party that Musk now supports are) definitely won't win a general election for at least another generation.
      1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
        Well the issue there then is that Farage’s Reform party seem likely to win that election. The current ostensibly-left-wing Labour government also have absolutely no appetite for rejoining either. Even the coalition of anti-growth eco-warriors and islamists which is the contemporary Green Party don’t say much which is a real surprise because it seems like such an easy vote-winner for them. Finally, it seems strange that the EU should pretty-well require the governments of its potential members to be left-wing or centrist, especially as this demand is now causing constituents of the EU to start to swing to the hard right too.
        1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
          Far right wing and nationalism caused two world wars in european soil. May or may not be related. And right wing parties themselves generally hate the EU, so nobody is asking for it anyways.
          1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗

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            1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
              How will a voluntary organization with no military force cause a world war,.while actual physical war is being waged by Russia right in its neighborhood?

              Tell me immediately and bluntly in full the mechanism of EU causing a world war right now, otherwise back off that absurd statement.

              1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
                An internal war as it falls apart, not an external war.
                1. ben_w · · focus · HN ↗
                  Then it's not a "world" war, is it?
                  1. gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
                    WW1 wasn’t a world war by that metric then.
                    1. ben_w · · focus · HN ↗
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