Can Trump block Canada's Europe alliance?
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The EU President Ursula Von der Leyen has offered Canada ‘associate membership of the EU’, a move which Donald Trump called ‘laughable’ - but still threatened ‘serious sanctions’ as punishment. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] In this episode of the Fourcast, we ask what Canada’s closer ties with the EU could mean - from tighter trade and defense to what Mark Carney calls 'a beacon for other democracies.' But with the far right rising in Europe, is the Canadian Prime Minister trying to join a club that could soon fall apart? Leslie Vinjamuri, the President and CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs says Carney is playing a long-game when it comes to the US, picking up support on both sides of the border by standing up to Trump, and that his decision to move closer to the EU is a ‘declaration of independence from King Trump’. While Dr. Linn Selle, head of the Europe division of the German Council on Foreign Relations, argu
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