EU Backs Away From Canada 'Associate Member' Talks After Member-State Split
A summit in Montreal is set to run Thursday and Friday, and a draft joint statement is already watered down. Sovereignty-minded voters will see a bloc whose offers are constrained by its own member-state disagreements.
The EU backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on Canada becoming an "associate member", after disagreements between EU member states. For many sovereignty-minded voters, this will look like the bloc's internal divisions setting the limits of what it can offer.
An EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal, running Thursday and Friday, while a draft joint statement to be issued after the summit showed a watered-down version.
The quoted formulation was "an ever closer association of Canada to the EU, short of full membership itself." For national-sovereignty readers, this is the language of a bloc that keeps the terms of association in its own hands.
Original reporting
The Guardian
EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks
Watered-down version of statement to be issued at end of Montreal summit instead offers ‘ever closer association’ The EU has backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on becoming an “associate member” after disagreements between member states just as an EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal. A draft of a joint statement to be issued after the end of the summit, which runs Thursday and Friday, showed a watered-down version offering “an ever closer association of Canada to the EU, short of full membership itself”. Continue reading...
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Facts this version was allowed to use
- The EU backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on Canada becoming an "associate member".
- The EU's move came after disagreements between EU member states.
- An EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal.
- The EU-Canada summit runs Thursday and Friday.
- A draft joint statement to be issued after the end of the summit showed a watered-down version.
- "an ever closer association of Canada to the EU, short of full membership itself"
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