{"id":368221,"date":"2025-08-23T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:59:15","slug":"a-look-at-mark-carneys-priorities-as-he-visits-poland-germany-and-latvia-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368221\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at Mark Carney\u2019s priorities as he visits Poland, Germany and Latvia &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/mark-carney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Carney<\/a> is in Europe this week, where he will spend the first part of next week meeting with political and business leaders to discuss a broad range of both economic and security issues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada and the European Union are both facing a common set of issues as they try to deal with the economic fallout of American tariffs and search for new ways to assist Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Carney will spend a day each in Poland, Germany and Latvia beginning on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He will be accompanied by Defence Minister David McGuinty and they will be visiting with Canadian Armed Forces personnel who are stationed in Poland and Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>Both of those countries are playing key roles in deterring Russian aggression and supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>In his discussions with the leaders of all three countries, Carney will be looking at ways to help Ukraine achieve a ceasefire and then defend that ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But leaders will also be looking at ways to improve their economies and diversify trading patterns in response to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canadian industries split after Carney drops tariffs against US products under CUSMA'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/THUMBS.00_00_10_15.Still015.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:03<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanadian industries split after Carney drops tariffs against US products under CUSMA\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11345643\/alligator-alcatraz-judge-orders-closure-florida\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2223409774.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJudge orders closure of Trump\u2019s Alligator Alcatraz, halts prisoner arrivals\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11345778\/mark-carney-donald-trump-tariffs\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ab61338aef6ba90b7df76b702645ed9e2bcf6f6a48c94e61dc5931f9cad7ba0b_a4d556.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCarney to remove Canada\u2019s counter-tariffs on U.S. goods under CUSMA\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Poland is Europe\u2019s fastest-growing economy and while Carney is there, he is expected to sign a strategic partnership on energy and security.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany on Tuesday, Carney will meet with business leaders who have a particular focus on critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p>Carney\u2019s trip builds on work done at two summits held in June, the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta and the Canada-E.U. Summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials travelling with the Prime Minister have told reporters that bringing Canada and Europe closer together is a top priority for the Carney government.<\/p>\n<p>Carney is due to return to Canada on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Europe this week, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[943,128888,2000,299,1824,2129,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-368221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-carney-in-europe","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-mark-carney","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080329106985286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}