{"id":37179,"date":"2025-04-21T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/37179\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T02:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:26:08","slug":"could-canada-join-the-eu-unlikely-but-not-impossible-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/37179\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Canada join the EU? Unlikely \u2026 but not impossible. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those candidate countries include Western Balkan countries as well as Ukraine and Moldova which are progressing well (if slowly) on the EU pathway, but also Turkey and Georgia, which have stalled due to democratic backsliding and concerns over the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the Canadian vibes are good, any decision would, ultimately, belong to the European Commission and the bloc\u2019s member countries.<\/p>\n<p>As a note of caution for any excitable europhiles in Ottawa, when the EU\u2019s southern neighbor Morocco applied for membership in 1987, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/enlargement\/briefings\/23a2_en.htm#:~:text=In%201987%20an%20application%20to,a%20European%20State%20(%207).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">application was declined<\/a> on the grounds that it was not a European state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>French farmers wouldn\u2019t like it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although some EU scholars have arguments about why Canada\u2019s EU membership is possible, others threw cold water on the prospect. <\/p>\n<p>To begin with, Canadians would need to be deadly serious about their so-called Europeanness. So far, the poll responses may have been \u201can emotional move on the part of Canadians,\u201d according to Bosse, the professor from Maastricht University.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the EU in 2004, Central European countries <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9781137315762_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continually framed<\/a> their accession as a \u201creturn to Europe,\u201d the place of their historical belonging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those candidate countries include Western Balkan countries as well as Ukraine and Moldova which are progressing well (if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[21385,3420,768,943,8514,8612,31,32,34,6561,2000,21386,299,5187,2816,1699,6644,36,2307,14093,2129,6489,391,47,21387,479,1201,6862,461,5465,49,12340],"class_list":{"0":"post-37179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-atlantic-ocean","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-customs","13":"tag-cyprus","14":"tag-democracy","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-enlargement","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-eu-treaties","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-european-politics","23":"tag-european-union","24":"tag-farmers","25":"tag-france","26":"tag-georgia","27":"tag-gibraltar","28":"tag-mark-carney","29":"tag-morocco","30":"tag-opinion","31":"tag-poll","32":"tag-state-of-the-union","33":"tag-tariffs","34":"tag-trade","35":"tag-trade-agreements","36":"tag-turkey","37":"tag-u-s-economy","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-welfare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114373589958605665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37179","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=37179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}