EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact
The draft pact would expand cooperation on energy, research and digital trade and include joint purchases of 50 water bombers.
- On Wednesday, Canada and Europe announced plans for a new partnership pact, with deals on digital trade, critical minerals, and firefighting planes expected at an upcoming summit.
- Ottawa and Brussels are forging this closer alliance as a strategic bulwark against increasing economic pressure and competition from the United States and China.
- The agreement includes a digital trade deal to lower transaction costs, funding from the European Investment Bank for Canadian critical minerals, and a joint purchase of 50 Havilland water bombers.
- Talks in Montreal next month will explore EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen's proposal for Canada to become the bloc's first associate member, while Canada also launches Erasmus youth mobility negotiations.
- The pact also seeks to "expand opportunities for Canadians and Europeans to study, work, conduct research and build lasting connections across the Atlantic," including a feasibility study on LNG exports to Europe.
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The EU and Canada will announce a partnership at the Montreal Summit on 29 October: joint support to Ukraine, critical raw materials, energy and 50 amphibians.
Agreements on digital cooperation, raw materials, firefighting aircraft and LNG are in the works, ahead of the EU-Canada summit. The summit will be held in Montreal, as part of efforts to bring Brussels and Ottawa closer together. The post EU-Canada summit: Brussels and Ottawa prepare a series of agreements to strengthen economic ties appeared first on in.gr.
The European Union and Canada are preparing agreements on digital services, strategic raw materials and firefighting aircraft ahead of their summit in late October. The news revealed by Politico states that at the summit in Montreal they will implement their intentions for rapprochement, following the proposal of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who had proposed that Canada become the first "associated member" of the EU.
The EU and Canada will soon announce an ambitious partnership agreement, report on Wednesday Politicalo, referring to the document before us. "At next month's EU-Canada landmark summit, a new broad partnership will be announced covering a wide range of areas, ranging from removing barriers to digital trade to jointly supporting Ukraine and investing in forest fire management," writes a publication.
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