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#Canada #EUFascinating survey results (1,500 Canadian adults, Feb 20-25):
▶️ 44% say Canada should join the EU
- 17% definitely
- 26 % probably
▶️ 46% generally support joining the EU
- 17% strongly
- 29 % somewhatabacusdata.ca/what-canadians-t…
Snowshadow 🇨🇦
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Snowshadow 🇨🇦 • • •You bet.
I just amended my newly #PinnedPost. 😉
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
2025-03-11 20:36:30
BioSchweiz
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to BioSchweiz • • •Well, #Canada is still part of a European, #UK-based #Commonwealth, for one thing.
Then, there is #CETA. And #NATO.
Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore, maybe #TransatlanticUnion would be more appropriate?
In fact, I favor #CEUM, for the time being.
An #FTA, similar, to how the #EuropeanCommunity got started, back in the day.
@Snowshadow
Veza85UE
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •How come Jamaica and Kenya aren't invited into this "European" Commonwealth/theme park with FTAs?
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Veza85UE • • •@Veza85UE
This, you must ask the negotiators of the current FTAs (see other post of mine.)
MEX and CAN are already negotiated.
@BioSchweiz @Snowshadow
Veza85UE
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •@BioSchweiz Are you American by any chance? Because I have no problem with non-Europeans so thoroughly misunderstanding the EU, you do you.
(That whirring sound you hear? That's "Saint" Robert Schuman spinning in his grave if you ARE European and refer to the CECA as an "FTA"...)
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Veza85UE • • •@Veza85UE
#CETA
Whatever this "CECA" might be that you're referring to, "CETA is a free trade agreement between Canada and the EU," as the Canadian government puts it, too:
international.gc.ca/trade-comm…
...but thank you for your perspective. I can now imagine how many of #CharlesDeGaulle's contemporaries must have felt, when he put forth his bold visions for a united Europe of sovereign states after World War II:
@BioSchweiz @Snowshadow
CETA Questions & Answers
GACBioSchweiz
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to BioSchweiz • • •#DefenseUnion #CEUM
You are asking an absolutely decisive question: who can lead Europe?
Alas, so far there is no-one one the horizon. I recently phased it differently, looking at #DeGaulle's European policy:
"Alas, #Macron is no visionary, precognitive leader like Président #CharlesDeGaulle was. With today's hindsight, he rightly distrusted the #Americans:..."
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... Show more...#DefenseUnion #CEUM
You are asking an absolutely decisive question: who can lead Europe?
Alas, so far there is no-one one the horizon. I recently phased it differently, looking at #DeGaulle's European policy:
"Alas, #Macron is no visionary, precognitive leader like Président #CharlesDeGaulle was. With today's hindsight, he rightly distrusted the #Americans:..."
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
2025-03-10 00:05:24
Veza85UE
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 • • •Veza85UE
Unknown parent • • •@BioSchweiz No, that's not how it works. If you're not an EU citizen, you don't get to say stuff like: "Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore" and expect anyone to care, one way or another.
The EU is NOT a mini UN, not an NGO, not an amusement park with trade agreements, etc. Which, again, if you're not European, I don't care if you think it *should* be any of those things, was just trying to make sure you're not an 🇪🇺 citizen.