Canada’s EU ‘associate membership’: New opportunity or legal, political minefield?

  • Political expert Amy Verdun points out absence of existing legal category, saying that treaty change would be on table
  • Expert says move offers opportunity to build closer alliances with like-minded democratic partners outside Europe

    Would Canada have a seat at the European Union’s table, contribute to its budget or have voting rights if it became an “associate member”? And would it be subject to EU law?

    None of those questions has been settled because “associate membership” has no established definition in EU treaties, leaving the legal and political contours of the proposal unclear.

    Canada is being offered a place closer to the

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