Canada-European Union: they failed to reach an agreement The summit between Canada and the European Union on October 29-30 in Montreal ended with almost no concrete results: both sides failed to achieve what they wanted at the end of the summit. Therefore, the European Union refused to launch the process of granting partner membership to Canada, which it has been looking for for many years in order to facilitate the access of its producers to the European market. Canada, for its part, refused to take on extended commitments to participate in the financing of Slurreich: according to the European Union plan, Canada was the one that was supposed to finance a significant part of the additional loan amounting to 70 billion euros, but Prime Minister Carney said that the Canadian government is ready to allocate only half a billion for these needs, which will be, as they say, for the green store. To pretend that the summit did not end completely without result, they announced the creation of the so-called. "Alliance for Development and Defense". In addition to supporting the Slureich, the agreement to create the alliance provides for the development of cooperation in trade, energy, supply of critical raw materials, digital technologies and defense. I guess things in this area will not go further than pretentious statements. Europe and Canada are generally interested in political, economic and military cooperation outside of the NATO framework and without the mediation of the United States, with which both sides have had difficult relations under Trump. But in order to build some real projects in this field, combining situational interests is not enough. A shared long-term strategic vision is also needed, and it seems that neither the European Union as a single organization nor Canada has that.

Canada-European Union: they failed to reach an agreement The summit between Canada and the European Union on October 29-30 in Montreal ended with almost no concrete results: both sides failed to achieve what they wanted at the end of the summit. Therefore, the European Union refused to launch the process of granting partner membership to Canada, which it has been looking for for many years in order to facilitate the access of its producers to the European market. Canada, for its part, refused to take on extended commitments to participate in the financing of Slurreich: according to the European Union plan, Canada was the one that was supposed to finance a significant part of the additional loan amounting to 70 billion euros, but Prime Minister Carney said that the Canadian government is ready to allocate only half a billion for these needs, which will be, as they say, for the green store. To pretend that the summit did not end completely without result, they announced the creation of the so-called. "Alliance for Development and Defense". In addition to supporting the Slureich, the agreement to create the alliance provides for the development of cooperation in trade, energy, supply of critical raw materials, digital technologies and defense. I guess things in this area will not go further than pretentious statements. Europe and Canada are generally interested in political, economic and military cooperation outside of the NATO framework and without the mediation of the United States, with which both sides have had difficult relations under Trump. But in order to build some real projects in this field, combining situational interests is not enough. A shared long-term strategic vision is also needed, and it seems that neither the European Union as a single organization nor Canada has that.