🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 E.U. Talks of Making Canada first 'Associate Member as US. Ties Weaken

Details are scant, and the linkup is not a done deal, but the announcement was the boldest step yet in a joint quest by the European Union and Canada for tighter global partnerships. Both economies have been trying to build stronger alliances with a variety of countries as they find themselves caught between a competitive China and an at-times-hostile United States.

Mr. Carney gave a headline-grabbing speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year during which he argued that the world order that emerged from the Cold War was facing a “rupture, not a transition,” and that “middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

The move on Wednesday was a clear demonstration of that strategy.

Ms. von der Leyen did not lay out in detail what associate membership to the European Union might entail. But European diplomats and officials in recent days have made it clear that Canada and the European Union, which will meet for a summit at the end of October, are working toward closer cooperation on technology regulation, trade and the supply of critical minerals.

Since trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed last month, the two countries have been locked in a trade war. President Trump has also repeatedly called for Canada to become the 51st state, prompting a wave of patriotism among Canadians.

By contrast, polls suggest that four out of five Canadians want Mr. Carney to bring their country closer to the European Union and that more than half would like Canada to join the bloc as a member.

Mr. Carney often calls Canada “the most European non-European country.” Already, Ottawa and Brussels have a free-trade agreement, though the deal has not been approved by 10 of the 27 E.U. member states. Nonetheless, about 90 percent of trade between the European Union and Canada is tariff-free. Total trade between the two was $150 billion last year, compared with the United States-Canada trade relationship, which was worth more than $800 billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/eu-canada-associate-member.html

📎 The New York Times

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The Volkstaat Policy Sustainable US Foreign Policy Concerning South Africa

"South Africa is in many ways a warning—a canary in the coal mine for Westerners about their future unfolding in real time. When demographics and liberalism and communism meet into one big so-called melting pot…" Ernst Roets, interview with WPPI, February, 2025

This multicultural experiment resulted in disaster for the Rainbow Nation and its minority Afrikaner population is facing unspeakable racially-motivated violence and land expropriation.

While the United States formally recognized their plight, more must be done to secure a future for the Afrikaners with full self-determination.

Our solution is The Volkstaat: the establishment of an independent state for Afrikaners.

There is ample precedent in Washington for the establishment of secessionist states based upon an ethnocultural identity. For example, the US supported the formation of Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Israel.

This policy is the natural extension of the pro-Afrikaner line the Administration has taken.

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