EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks
A draft of a joint statement to be issued after the end of the summit, which runs Thursday and Friday, showed a watered-down version offering “an ever closer association of Canada to the EU, short of full membership itself”.
German Chancellor Merz and other EU leaders reportedly pushed for the terms to be removed from the draft statement.
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