Former German Foreign Minister Gabriel proposes Canada's EU membership

[jumi@lemmy.world]

That would be so cool if I could visit Canada without any visa or other shit.

[quittenbrot@feddit.org]

Well Canada, you know what that means...:

[akasazh@feddit.nl]

Céline Dion once more, or Justin Bieber?

[hubi@feddit.org]

Georgia is a EU candidate and it's neither in Europe nor bordering a EU state. It should definitely be possible.

[brotundspiele@feddit.org]

Europe is not well defined, there are different opinions where Europe ends and Asia begins. Depending on the definition you choose, Georgia can be seen as partially or even completely in Europe.

On the other hand, there is not much discussion that the Atlantic is the western border of Europe, so Canada is definitely not in Europe.

[brotundspiele@feddit.org]

If Trump pulls through with his plans to invade Canada and Greenland, the only Canadian products exportable to the US are artillery grenades and bullets anyway.

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

Maybe call it something other than the European Union in that case?

[felixcress@lemmy.world]

We can have colonies in North America again.

[philpo@feddit.org]

Georgia is absolutely within Europa by geographical, historically and politically.
The eastern and southern reaches of the Caucasus mountains define the border towards Asia in that region.

[philpo@feddit.org]

Was about to say that: Sea border wise you are closer to France than the British are.

(Fun fact: Do you know which country has the longest land border to France? .....it's Brazil)

[philpo@feddit.org]

Looked it up,no,they wouldn't. There are provisions for these cases (same for the UK and Ireland with their driving sides) in these regulations and most EU regulations in that regard are based in ISO anyway.

They might get funding for it from the EU, though,so it might be a fun thing to calculate the costs.
Very likely it would be cheaper for Canada to slowly transfer away from it, anyway, as the rest of the world is not using it and with the US putting tarrifs on,it might be the better option.

Tbh, the "EU regulations" are often not that bad actually for the smaller user(and I work in healthcare where the medical device regulations seem nightmarish at first - once you understand them they are FAR easier than what we had before and FAR cheaper to follow than the US rules. My former employer - the world leader in their field- e.g. refused to sell in the US for that reason).

[philpo@feddit.org]

You grossly misunderstood what the single market means - there are of course absolutely different local regulations and customs that are used.
Ireland (and the UK before they left) drive on the other side of the road, trains systems vary by nation, even electrical standards do - the single market in terms of norms means that they just have to all follow a general market admission will follow the same rules - e.g. a product needs to fully comply with the basic marke wide ruleset.

[friendlymessage@feddit.org]

We would have to change it already if we cared

[friendlymessage@feddit.org]

Well, we have our fair share of "red states" in the EU unfortunately...

[pubquiz@lemmy.world]

As Canada is a country roughly the size of Poland it would seem to be beneficial to join the EU (pop. 441m) with a balance of right- and left-wing views. Better than being economically and culturally tied to the death-cult in the US.

[veroxii@aussie.zone]

Yeap. Look at us here in Australia. In Eurovision and we don't belong to shit.

[woodscientist@sh.itjust.works]

AHEM!

[woodscientist@sh.itjust.works]

While we're making crazy changes to the timeline, can I suggest one more? Let's get Britain to finally depose the monarchy. With nowhere else to go, the House of Windsor flees to North America. We now refer to, "Charles, King of Canada."

[thebrideworecrimson@sopuli.xyz]

Ukrainian regulations were/ are all aligned with Russian ones, take a guess how the future looks like for that arrangement.

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

And after 3 years of negotiations and Ukraine being probably the fastest country to adapt their laws in the history of enlargements they are still nowhere near close to be aligned with the EU on internal market rules.