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Former German foreign minister suggests Canada should be part of EU

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Former German foreign minister suggests Canada should be part of EU

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month ago
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The former German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has proposed offering Canada partial membership in the European Union. "Maybe not fully integrated like everyone else, but maybe partially," the Social Democrat told the Bremen-based newspaper Weser-Kurier in comments published on Saturday. Europe must resist US President Donald Trump's push to make Canada part of the United States, said Gabriel, who was foreign minister from 2017-18 and vice chancellor from 2013-18 under then chancellor Angela M
  • INACTIVE
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    8•1 month ago

    If Canada joins EU, should we change its name? Any suggestions?

    • Schiffsmädchenjunge
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      54•1 month ago

      Why change? Canada is a perfectly good name.

      • Redex
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        4•1 month ago

        I didn’t even realise this comment was a joke and was confused at OPs question, until I realized they were thinking about the EU.

    • IndiBrony
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      8•1 month ago

      Well you could say it’s a treaty of organisations all located by the North Atlantic… TONA? I dunno, it could never work!

      • @[email protected]
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        6•1 month ago

        ATON - Atlantic Treaty Organization of the North?

        • @[email protected]
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          2•1 month ago

          We could get rid of all nukes and still threaten with aton bombs.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•1 month ago

        Should be something that works in most languages

    • macniel
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      13•1 month ago

      We could name it the UE. United Earth.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•1 month ago

        Federated union of nations.

        • @[email protected]
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          2•1 month ago

          Sounds FUN.

      • @[email protected]
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        3•1 month ago

        Super Earth. Our home.

      • @[email protected]
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        6•1 month ago

        Why not EU (earth united)

        • @[email protected]
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          2•1 month ago

          EEU (Europe Etc Union)

    • @[email protected]
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      6•1 month ago

      Northern Union? Atlantic Union?

      Honestly keeping it the EU might be the easiest.

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