{"id":952391,"date":"2026-10-30T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952391\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:10:09","slug":"montreal-summit-marks-historic-step-in-canada-eu-ties-as-associate-membership-talks-gain-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952391\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal summit marks historic step in Canada-EU ties as associate membership talks gain steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada is seeking to become the first non-European nation to attain the new, and internationally contentious, designation of \u201cassociate member\u201d in the European Union, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Friday in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are working towards the deepest possible partnership, short of accession because of our geography, with Canada becoming the European Union\u2019s first associate member,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it\u2019s approved, the new alliance will make Canada the closest partner to the 27-nation economic bloc and its 450 million residents, bringing with it greater opportunities for jobs, research, economic trade and security, Carney said at the close of the 21st Canada-European Union summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is seeking to become the first non-European nation to attain the new, and internationally contentious, designation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-952391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952391","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=952391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}