cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44418560
Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.
France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has floated the idea that Canada could one day join the European Union, using the transatlantic ally as a striking example of the bloc’s global appeal.
Speaking at the Europe 2026 conference in Berlin alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, Barrot argued that the EU is increasingly attracting partners far beyond its borders as geopolitical tensions soar.
Barrot’s Canada remark was not presented as a concrete policy proposal, but rather as part of a broader argument that the EU is emerging as a “third superpower” capable of balancing the rivalry between the United States and China.
As a Brit who moved to Canada and was super annoyed when Brexit made me lose my EU passport status, it would be hilarious if this is how I end up getting it back.
Sure does feel weird to think about a country not on the European continent becoming part of the European Union. Also, loosing the looney and the toonie from Canada’s currency would be a global tragedy.
Canada can poot anything they want on the backside of the Euro coins they mint. It’s fun to sort through your change and see where the coins came from. Might see a maple leaf one day?
That’s an interesting detail I didn’t know. With this new knowledge I choose to live in the timeline where Canada puts a loonie on the back of the euro coin haha.
Well… Canada has a land border with Denmark…
Call me a rube but I’m more of a mainland enthusiast myself. Don’t pay much mind to uninhabited islands that are closer in size to Vatican City than Tuvalu.
France is closer to Canada than it is to England
Interesting fact, though capital city to capital city, Canada is an order of magnitude further from France than it is to England.
Also,
^might be more beneficial to copy paste text than to upload screenshots of said text so the size and formatting can jive with whatever device or client a person is using to read the comment^
cheers!
Just didn’t want to fuck around with formatting into block quotes lol, sometimes the laziness gets me
The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait,[a] historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe. The shortest distance across the strait, at 20.6 miles (33.2 km), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais. Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers.[1] The entire strait is within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea allows vessels of other nations to move freely through the strait.
The islands are in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near the entrance of Fortune Bay, which extends into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.[8] St. Pierre is 19 kilometres (10+1⁄2 nautical miles) from Point May on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and 3,819 kilometres (2,373 mi) from Brest, the nearest city in Metropolitan France.[9] The tiny Canadian Green Island lies 10 kilometres (5+1⁄2 nmi) east of Saint Pierre, roughly halfway to Point May.
Here you go.
Thank you dear non lazy person
It was actually much easier than I expected since the mardown formatting came straight with the copy/paste!
A lot of countries in the European Union keep their old currencies. It is not mandatory.
But it would insulate Canada from the United States manipulating it. They absolutely should take on the euro.
I’m no expert but given the trade between the two nations, I don’t think a currency change would do a whole lot to provide insulation from economic bullying the United States is capable of.
Maybe Canada could build a moat haha.
Oh for sure, I just meant the euro would insulate them from future plays on their currency, led by the administration and their parasitical business buddies, in the future when elections are firmly fixed, borrowing is getting maxed out, and they rig the numbers and news to prop up the failing economy.
I think it is funny that France’s longest land border is shared with Brazil.
French guinea?
French Guiana. I used to always get my Guineas and Guiana/Guyanas mixed up.
I didn’t have “Canada joins EU” on my polymarket geopolitics multi-bet
Search “Queen of Canada”
I’ll pass but thanks, Santa!
Ok. That’s the connection.
A gift of a link is nicer than an instruction to perform a task, regardless of whatever connection you’re trying to make.
Ok. Here’s a link. I don’t think it is that much to search these days, but I could be mistaken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada?wprov=sfti1
Oh thanks for that link. Goes on a lot about a King, less about a Queen.
Anyway not entirely sure how it’s related to my initial comment in this thread, unless the connection being made is the British Empire being marginally similar to the European Union in that it is a collection of countries that may or may not be geographical neighbours? I think the whole bit about one of those collections being voluntary and the other… less so.
But I appreciate the contribution all the same, I’ll put it in the guest room.
Ta-ta
Thanks. It is about the Monarchy. The search led to that Wikipedia page. Read the very top of page. It redirects to that page.
I suggested to search, which brings up a lot more information about the Queen. You wanted a link. Have a nice weekend.
Countries can join the EU without switching to the euro.
They are legally bound to eventually adopt the euro. But they can deliberately fail to meet the convergence criteria, like Sweden does.
They have to commit to taking steps towards adoption and then they don’t actually have to do anything.
