• IratePirate@feddit.org
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Why not call it the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? What, that one’s taken already? Well, with the pace of U.S. self-destruction, there’s a non-zero chance that it will become available again, isn’t there?

  • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyzEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Turns out that China isn’t that big and threatening anymore if you just look at the world in the right way.

  • Martj9@piefed.socialEnglish
    29·
    16 hours ago

    The right title should be “What happens if Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, United Kingdom, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, and even Georgia and Armenia join the European Union”.

    Which is quite a large plan

    • BigShammy80@feddit.org
      4·
      10 hours ago

      I hope something like that would happen! Finally we would be able to just say: Shut the fuck up Trump/Putin/whoever!

      • IratePirate@feddit.org
        9·
        9 hours ago

        And Orbán, Le Pen, Farage, Weidel, Fico, Georgescu, Vucic, Nawrocki and all the other traitors would willingly hold the backdoor open for the fascists in East and West.

        I agree, this can be a strong boat that carries us far into a better future - but we need to plug the holes ASAP.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 hours ago

      To make sense of it you need to read the title (“Greater EU”) and the scenario described in smallprint at the top.

      • Martj9@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        It depicts a future distant enough in which all european countries, Canada, Georgia and even Armenia had time to join the EU, strictly EU as the darker blue means in the caption (weirdly not Switzerland). But at the same time the occupied Ukraine has the same frontline it has today and Transnistria still exists (it’s hard to see but it’s clearer in the bigger image someone posted here below)

        I can’t imagine when this future can be placed

      • Asetru@feddit.org
        8·
        14 hours ago

        Russia should just be invited to join the EU too 😁

        Maybe Russia should first stop killing Europeans and funding anti-European populists.

        Oh, then it of course needs to stop being a shithole country, too… There are requirements to join the EU, you know? I doubt that pillaging a neighbour to have rapist soldiers steal toilets and washing machines is a good indicator for economic guardrails.

  • kossa@feddit.org
    10·
    17 hours ago

    Well, for once its becomes more complicated again to agree on common stances.

    The principle of unison votes needs to go first before the EU can be expanded.

          • kossa@feddit.org
            22·
            13 hours ago

            It’s literally a citation. And it’s shitty. As long as there’s a unison principle for any decision (and it’s usually about the “important” ones), the EU cannot move forward.

            But more importantly, with the unison principle it’s so, so easy to sabotage the EU, as you only need to influence a single country as foreign actor. Which is just what China, Russia and USA are exploiting. The latter literally wrote it down in their national security strategy: “let’s buy out Hungary or Austria, they’re easy targets, and thus prohibit advancement of the European Union”.

    • NewDay@feddit.orgEnglish
      41·
      17 hours ago

      Cyprus is not in Europe. You do not have to be located in Europe, but you have to share European values.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        8 hours ago

        that’s not a fair comparison… cyprus is a tiny not particularly important country located reasonably close to an unambigously european country, meanwhile canada is the size of the rest of the EU combined and is separated by a massive ocean.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    4·
    17 hours ago

    I’m not sure I even want any more big power blocs if they can so easily be taken over by creepy senile paedophile TV presenters.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      8 hours ago

      yeah, what i want to see is more local unions to bolster the power of the small countries in the world.
      Obviously here in europe there’s not that many candidates though, since the big group of smol nations is uh, not keen on the concept of getting along with each other…

    • Melchior@feddit.org
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Armenia just passed a bill to make the government work on joining the EU. Georgia has joining the EU written in its constitution, but the current government has suspended the process. That was in October 2024 and triggered massive protests, which are still ongoing.

  • NewDay@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    17 hours ago

    It will never happen. There is no canadian will to be a future member of an united European country. The Canadians will never ever be pro EU if they understand that they lose power in some topics.

    • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      I’d be pro EU as a Canadian but a lot would depend on how well the decades leading up to it went. The process of regulatory harmonization could be a huge challenge with many possible deal breakers.

      I think Schengen membership is a good near term goal, though. Achievable. Then we see how it looks from there.

      • NewDay@feddit.orgEnglish
        17·
        16 hours ago

        Unfortunately, you are USA lite when we compare your regulations and ours. This change needs time (experience ~15yrs) for the companies to adopt while not getting bankrupt, because of all the investments they have to do comply. Then you will publically announce that the Euro will become your currency in the future. Bulgaria joined the Eurozone and it backfired, because of “losing our national identity and sovereignty” and their Lev was already pegged to the Euro. You are not Denmark, that means you will not get the benefits they have. -> Economy and the society do not want it and of course our US friends will pay the separatists to use this and become “independent”.

        • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          9 hours ago

          Yes, it would be a major challenge with many possible deal breakers.