France has just put one of the strangest geopolitical ideas in the West back on the table: Canada joining the European Union.
It sounds absurd at first. Canada is not in Europe. But European leaders are starting to treat Ottawa less like a distant partner and more like a potential European sibling.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot did not present Canadian EU membership as a formal plan but did say Canada could “maybe” join the bloc one day. In doing so, he gave voice to a question that is no longer just internet fantasy: if the US becomes more hostile, could Canada look across the Atlantic for protection, influence, and political partnership?
Europe Wants to Sell Itself as the Third Superpower
France was not only making a case for Canada to join the EU, it was actually making a bigger claim that Europe can become a third superpower in a world dominated by the United States and China.
In this way, Barrot’s Canada
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