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    <title>Canada Cannot Join Europe. It Can Get Most of the Way There.</title>
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    <description>Ottawa is exploring a status that does not exist, with a bloc whose treaties say it cannot join, to escape a neighbour that takes seven in ten of its exports. This brief sets out what is actually on the table, what is not, and how to price the outcomes.</description>
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    <content:encoded><![CDATA[New analysis on The Geopolitical Economist

CANADA CANNOT JOIN EUROPE. IT CAN GET MOST OF THE WAY THERE.

What an EU 'associate' status for Canada could contain, what the treaties rule out, and three scenarios with odds. By J. Dyson.

Ottawa is exploring a status that does not exist, with a bloc whose treaties say it cannot join, to escape a neighbour that takes seven in ten of its exports. This brief sets out what is actually on the table, what is not, and how to price the outcomes.

From the opening:
“On 13 September the Wall Street Journal reported that Prime Minister Mark Carney is exploring whether Canada could become an "associate member" of the European Union, and that officials on both sides were open to creating a status that does not currently exist. The European Commission declined to comment.”

By J. Dyson, Research and risk analyst

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/canada-eu-associate-membership-risk-brief

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