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Carney to Address European Parliament, Attend State of the Union Address
Carney said Canada will begin intense talks with the European Union to build a stronger economic and security partnership as U.S. tariffs rise.
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the State of the EU speech in Strasbourg on September 16, following an invitation from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued before the U.S. trade conflict intensified.
- Trade talks between Ottawa and Washington collapsed last week amid sovereignty disputes, prompting Canada to accelerate efforts to diversify trade away from the U.S. market, which accounts for 95% of Canadian business.
- Canada already participates in the €150 billion SAFE defence instrument and plans to offer the EU improved access to critical raw materials, including lithium, nickel, and graphite, to strengthen integration.
- "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership," Carney said on Monday.
- While Bruegel senior fellow Guntram Wolff notes strategic alignment "could go far," full membership remains unlikely because Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union restricts accession to any "European State.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has had enough of economic blackmail from the US and President Trump.
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will try to rally the European Union to the resistance movement in the face of the Trump administration's tariff attacks by delivering a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in mid-September.
·Montreal, Canada
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will be present at a key annual speech by the President of the European Commission.
·Montreal, Canada
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The confirmation of the visit to Europe is known in the midst of a new tariff pulse between the Canadian Prime Minister and the President of the United States, Donald Trump
·Madrid, Spain
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