Cool. I’m not offended by that. 28th member sounds respecta. 51st state, not so much. 😂
Nah we just need a fancy team name for the not-absolute-fuck-head countries.
I mean EU is Europe and I fucking love you guys but down here in Australia we can’t just up and move the continent to Europe.
I don’t think the name should be dependent on membership like BRICS or whatever because you don’t want to have to rebrand when you kick someone out or let someone in.
I think it should include a word like collaborative because honestly, that’s what it’s about - we’re better off working together.
It’s also important to choose a name with a catchy acronym that isn’t already taken.
Maybe Collaborative Union of Nice Terran States.
A-tier shitpost 👍
EBU EU whats the difference?
If Australia can be part of the Eurovision song contest so It can be of the EU. Also everybody already asume anyway that you are just Austria.
Let’s go CUNTS!
But its about European values. Compassion, democracy, empathy, forgiveness and freedom
I still would not call them European values, it comes of as values that exist in Europe and nowhere else. And I’d rather have compassion, democracy etc everywhere.
I like “Commonwealth”.
But I re-read your comment and the initialism is a solid option.
How about “The Commonsense”?
It would be nice, but we’re not there yet.
Yeah but commonwealth has connotations that don’t apply.
That would be confusing since then Canada would be part of two commonwealths.
You just answered yourself. Just call it CUNAFHC - Collaborative Union of Not-Absolute-Fuck-Head-Countries
How about just, free world. The rest are fascist dictatorships anyway.
Not true, there’s also we poor countries who can’t afford hanging around with the nice guys in the block
Well who says you cant join up? An alliance like NATO doesnt have a price tag except for the 2% minimum defence limit, but it’s 2% subjective to your income. So you literally can afford that.
Yes but then you’d need NATO’s approval. Remember how Erdogan put all sorts of 'but’s to Finland and Sweden, countries with way more wealth (and more arguments to be included in NATO) than one like mine
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It doesn’t really make sense for Canada to be a member of the EU simply because Canada isn’t in Europe. What we could do is grant Canada a deal similar to what Norway has now. We’re one of four members of EFTA, which are part of the EEA without being EU members.
I must admit that my knowledge of Canada is shallow at best but my impression is that its overall values align well with western European democracies.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
As much as I like Canada compared to the US, they are not European by any stretch of the imagination. I’d be for free trade and free movement as a beginning, but part of the European Union is a bit much.
It’s not possible by current legislation aswell. You need to be on the European continent to join the EU.
Fun fact: being located on the European continent is actually not a requirement. It is only mentioned that you need to be “European” which is open to interpretation (although, of course the continent comes to mind first). It basically says you have to have some relation towards being European, whether that is by politics, culture or by location (preferrably all of the above).
The best example would be Cyprus, which is actually located on the Asian continent but is culturally closer to Europe than Asia.
Canada feels like one of the more “European” leaning countries considering this. That said, I think the chance of them joining the EU in the close future admittedly feels pretty low. But you never know, maybe the EU evolves into something of a counter concept to whatever is happening in the USA right now.
No, technically you just need to be “European”, which is never strictly defined anywhere. It was being considered that Algeria join after all, but it didn’t happen because of the civil war (from my understanding of the situation). Canada is one of the most European-like non Europe countries, so it would kinda fit.
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Not a word, my dude.
This is English, anything can be a word, it just has to be used enough, and understood aswell. I think it’s perfectly cromulent.
So fetch. And way comma-spliced.
EU & Friends
Actually, the EU has a whole bouquet of options for countries that want to cooperate with it. It can be trade agreements, free trade area, currency union, Schengen Area and so on. Norway, Switzerland and Turkey are examples of different degrees of associated status.
But be aware that any full EU membership would non-negotiable include the right of not only companies but also people to move freely in the common area - yes, that would mean that any EU citizen has the right to move to and live in Canada, and vice versa, as long as these persons can support themselves.
Discrimination against people that can’t support themselves.
Not really. It prevents countries from bearing the burden of maintaining other nation’s unemployed, incapacitated, etc…
Sigma Gabriel
W name in this context lmao frfr ong
I completely forgot that this guy was our foreign minister for over a year.
Let’s do it.
And California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii please 🙏🏼
C.h.o.w? Nice.
The geese took that personal.
Nothing personnel kid
From the limited stuff I know about Canada, please no. They only seem reasonable because they are only ever compared to usa.
