• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    i was wondering around Berlin once upon a time. in the park behind the parliament.

    a slightly overly helpful german said “excuse me. are you lost?” i mumbled “no no, not really”

    they walked beside me for a bit and said “ah you are english. i will take you to the parliament it’s just over there”. and i agreed

    then they said “your boys died for my country” which really took my breath away

    so yeah we got your back cananadia. that’s what we do when the fundamentalists kick off. even if we have to die

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Northern Brit here: we have to have each other’s backs. The only way we’re getting off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride is together ❤️ we can do this.

    Resist. Rebel. Revolt. ✊

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      27 days ago

      I don’t think Canada should fully be in the EU, but some kind of set of bilateral arrangements like Switzerland has would be a good start.

      Since Canada has lots of historical ties with the UK, it might work out well to have some kind of arrangement with the UK, Canada and the EU. That would let Britain start to undo some of the damage from Brexit, while also allowing Canada to reinforce those ties to the UK.

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        27 days ago

        And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.

        I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.

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          27 days ago

          As the EU mostly does not decide population based but with equal votes per country that wouldn’t be an issue.

          The larger issue is the fact that the European and US regulations clash in a lot of things so it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.

          But otherwise: We would absolutely welcome you.

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          27 days ago

          The EU is talking to Turkey about membership (on and off…), and I would say that Canada is more European than Turkey.

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            26 days ago

            Actual membership for Turkey hasn’t been a serious option for a long time. Turkey knows it, EU knows it. There simply is no other label than “candidate” that could better describe what TR means to the EU. They want to keep it as close as possible, and TR benefits from it, a lot. A symbiosis, if you will. As for the Switzerland model, the EU clearly stated, multiple times, that they don’t want to repeat the unholy mess of relations they created with CH and, in fact, would rather transform it to something in line with stock EU foreign policy.