European Union member states have blocked a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to grant Canada a special status as an “associate member” of the bloc.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and several other EU leaders pushed to remove the term from a draft declaration ahead of a two-day EU-Canada summit beginning Thursday in Montreal, according to diplomats cited by the dpa and AFP news agencies.

Instead, the revised document calls for a plan to establish “closer ties” between

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        Dude, this has nothing to do with middle east. What did even France or Italy do for you to call them genocide-buddies and how would Canada be mixed up in this? Why are you insulting so many countries and people?

        Close reddit lemmy and touch grass

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          You’ve been corrected on this already. Both entities are responsible in part for what is opening in Palestine. How can you possibly not be aware of that?

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            Both entities are responsible in part for what is opening in Palestine

            The question is about how is that relevant to multiple countries veto’ing the associate aggreement

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              It is not the question. It’s your question.

              Countries vetoing this agreement are complicit in genocide currently and historically. Countries like that collaborating is not a good thing.

              Ask anyone appealing to these governments to stop facilitating genocide. They use their interrelationships to point to each other and shirk responsibility. It’s a very big problem.

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                Naah, I think it’s because those countries historically were involved in slave trade. I think slave trade is the real reason diplomacy in Europe is’t going smooth. And no, you cannot ask me why as that is not the question, you cannot deny that slaves didn’t exist so it all fits

                This is how you sound like. I’m not even continuing this.

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          France and Canada both supply weapons to Israel. While Italy backed off new arms shipments they are still providing supplies AKA material support for genocide.

          So inconvenient to bring up genocide, I know.

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            But why are you bringing up Palestine war instead of Ukraine war, which is far deadlier and actually affects countries in this article? That one affects Europe much more directly, including the talks about Ukraine also becoming an associate member, just like Canada?

            In other words - why the hell are you talking about Palestine under this article and then even claiming “so inconvenient to bring up genocide” while not even inconvenient, just really, really random

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              I didn’t bring this up, OP of this thread did. You commented and I commented. It is called a conversation. No one is forcing you to get “off topic” if that is really what you believe.