{"id":950506,"date":"2026-10-29T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950506\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:08:20","slug":"canada-welcomes-eu-leaders-to-montreal-for-talks-on-next-steps-in-relationship-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950506\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada welcomes EU leaders to Montreal for talks on next steps in relationship | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793268500_819_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney embraces European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 29, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to welcome European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen to Montreal today after months of pursuing closer ties with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>While membership in the EU is off the table, officials on both sides say they\u2019re looking at ways to forge closer ties in the business, tech, clean energy and critical minerals fields.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen described the proposed partnership as \u201cassociate membership\u201d in the 27 nation bloc, but some European leaders have rejected that term.<\/p>\n<p>European officials repeatedly used the phrase \u201calliance for the future\u201d to describe the relationship in a press briefing Tuesday \u2014 phrasing previously endorsed by Carney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney embraces European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after addressing the European Parliament in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-950506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}