Carney odpiera presję Trumpa, Bruksela zabiega o Kanadę
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Ursula von der Leyen offered Canada a novel place beside, rather than inside, the European Union, proposing associate status during her State of the European Union address in Strasbourg. The plan would build a common economic security space around clean energy, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, Arctic policy and defence, although EU treaties do not yet define such a category for a non-European state. Mark Carney sat in the chamber and received the kind of ovation usually reserved for enlargement hopefuls, not G7 prime ministers looking for a hedge against Washington.
Donald Trump reacted as if Brussels had tried to tow Canada across the Atlantic. He threatened heavy tariffs on Europe if he judged the proposal hostile to American interests, an especially pointed warning for a Canadian economy that still sends roughly 70% of its exports to the United States. Mark Carney answered in the European Parliament by insisting that Ottawa would choose its partners without permission from abroad.
„No one is going to dictate our culture or with whom we can strike agreements internationally.”
The next test moves to Montreal, where delegations will try on October 29-30 to turn a grand label into legal text. EU officials must still persuade member governments that associate status will not become a back door into the single market, while Canada must show that diversification means more than speeches in French-accented Strasbourg. The prize is not membership, but optionality, and Ottawa has just made optionality sound like a national-security asset.
Na podstawie relacji: Reuters, Le Parisien, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times, ZEIT ONLINE, LesEchos.fr