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Carney’s EU membership bid already shows cracks

Just one day after Carney formally announced he would try to get Canada associate membership in the EU, multiple EU diplomats came out to call the bid half-baked.

Dylan Gibbons
Sep 18, 2026
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Source: X (Mark Carney)

Speaking with The Telegraph, multiple diplomats and other representatives have described Canadian PM Mark Carney and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s joint proposal of wedding Canada to the EU as poorly defined and even “empty”.

“Member states know they are in the lead here. They know substance-wise it can be a …

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