As the international context becomes more challenging for the European Union, the bloc is looking to boost its ties with like-minded allies. Canada is part of that architecture that the EU says it wants to build. The big news of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech in September was that Canada could become an associate member – an arrangement that does not exist for the EU’s partners at the moment.
The EU-Canada summit, set to take place at the end of October in Montreal, might provide some clues as to what this enhanced relationship will look like. We delve into the topic with two MEPs.
Programme prepared by Oihana Almandoz, Isabelle Romero and Perrine Desplats
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