️🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦 Politico: The European Union will not offer "associate membership" to post‑Brexit Britain, despite Commission President Ursula von der Leyen extending the status to Canada in her State of the Union address.

️🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦 Politico: The European Union will not offer "associate membership" to post‑Brexit Britain, despite Commission President Ursula von der Leyen extending the status to Canada in her State of the Union address.

A senior EU official said the offer to Canada was for a country normally ineligible to join the bloc.

"Unlike Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Norway and the U.K., Canada is not in Europe. It cannot join the EU. Norway shouldn't be looking at this and thinking 'oh we want more.' Their route to that is to join the EU. Same for the U.K."