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Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

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temporallobe · 1789655931 · focus · HN ↗
My understanding is that an EU member state has to physically be in Europe unless they are an “extension” of a state already in the EU. I get that it’s supposed to be an “associate” state but I’m fascinated by what kind of legal hoops they’re going to jump through to make this happen.
They did make an exception for Cypress, so I suppose there’s some kind of precedent.
1. triceratops · 1789656408 · focus · HN ↗
  Canada has a sea border with France.
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
  1. antoineleclair · 1789656641 · focus · HN ↗
    And a land border with Denmark.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
    Also, I think the constraint to be in the EU is that it has to be "an European country". It's relatively vague.
  2. fph · 1789656647 · focus · HN ↗
    Is it a land border? Because if they are separated by a stretch of sea, well, the same is true for Canada and mainland France.
    triceratops · 1789657252 · focus · HN ↗
    By that logic the UK doesn't have any neighbors other than the Republic of Ireland.
    jeroenhd · 1789657930 · focus · HN ↗
    The UK has a land border with Spain in Gibraltar
    triceratops · 1789658103 · focus · HN ↗
    Checkmate, I'll give you that one.
    Someone else pointed out Canada also has a land border with Denmark: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741686
    What about Australia? New Zealand? Japan? Maybe Indonesia (I don't know maybe it has something on the Asian mainland).
    P-Nuts · 1789690221 · focus · HN ↗
    Gibraltar is not strictly speaking part of the UK

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