{"id":30340,"date":"2026-05-03T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/30340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:20:10","slug":"alarm-bells-for-trump-as-mark-carney-joins-european-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/30340\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm bells for Trump as Mark Carney joins European summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer, Germany\u2019s Friedrich Merz<\/a> and Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni<\/a> were all considered to have relatively good relations with Mr Trump, but have become targets of his anger for refusing to join his war in Iran. Their bridge-building gambits have failed.<\/p>\n

Instead, they\u2019re living in the world envisioned by Mr Carney in Davos<\/a> earlier this year, when \u00a0he bluntly warned that integration with the US \u2013 whether economic, defence or cultural \u2013 is a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

The speech made Mr Carney something of a star, with his wake-up call about a political \u201crupture\u201d threatening to chew up and spit out the world\u2019s \u201cmiddle powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re not at the table, we\u2019re on the menu,\u201d he proclaimed, without naming Mr Trump directly.<\/p>\n

Building \u2018a third superpower\u2019<\/p>\n

Those \u201cmiddle powers\u201d are now gathering in Armenia, and Mr Trump has not been invited.<\/p>\n

Recent events have left European and Canadian leaders scrambling to build a third superpower to stop themselves being crushed between the weight of the US and China.<\/p>\n

It all makes Canada joining the EU sound quite plausible. Recent polls show almost 60 per cent of Canadians would favour the move.<\/p>\n

In reality, it\u2019s probably a bridge too far, but Mr Carney\u2019s presence at the European Political Community summit will only add to the growing discussions about the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer, Germany\u2019s Friedrich Merz and Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni were all considered to have relatively good relations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,162,586,3242,111,2415,6829,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-30340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-mark-carney","13":"tag-standard","14":"tag-us-content","15":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}