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
It would mean replacing The CAD with the EUR, would be kinda funny to see EU flags on the border between the US and Canada though…
You can still decorate your Euros how you want, so we could keep our beavers and loons.
You have loons on your doubloons? 👀
Yes, we call our dollar coins “loonies” as a result. By analogy, the bimetallic $2 coin is the “toonie” for two.
That looks like a joke written out, but it is not.
In fact, the following EU countries do not (yet) use the euro, but their own currency:
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Sweden
In theory they’re legally obligated to switch one day. In practice Romania is being blocked by other EU members.
Also Denmark.
Denmark has a dispensation they arranged when forming the EU.
Sweden and the other countries does not.
When joining the EU you are commited to switching to the Euro when you have fullfilled the criteria for doing so, Sweden has decided to not fullfill the criterias required and will therefore keep the Krona for the forseeable future.
I want this if only just to see Vance complaining about EU expansion at their border.
No need for them to adopt the Euro though. Many EU countries are still on their original currency even now.