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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    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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            I thought you were finished.

            I just read your profile. You’re a genocide apologist. That explains how dedicated you are to being obtuse!

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              I think you should learn to read then since you failed (shit, I even have a profile description going into that, how did you miss it?). I meant not continuing the topic, but at this point I’m just ridiculing you.