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Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

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jorblumesea · 1789656632 · focus · HN ↗
EU is notoriously fractured and divided in the best of times, especially around membership. Importantly, many EU countries have not ratified CETA, and that was put in place in 2017.
FT is a pro transatlanticism but has a somewhat negative take on all of this
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1. nolok · 1789657706 · focus · HN ↗
  > EU is notoriously fractured and divided in the best of times, especially around membership.
  Eh, we're less divided than people who think so realize, we're more divided than people who think we're united realize. Not really an issue on that particular case.
  > Importantly, many EU countries have not ratified CETA
  Like a lot of deals, including a big part of dicussion in the Canada/US talk, CETA's issues are about food.
  But the thing is, unlike a lot of deal like Mercosur, CA/EU is very vast even excluding food, for BOTH sides of the talk. So I'm pretty sure we can figure things out.

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