Former German Foreign Minister Gabriel proposes Canada's EU membership

[kidplayer_666@lemm.ee]

You could argue for it being culturally European though

[allnewtypeface@leminal.space]

Would Canada be obliged to switch to 230V mains electricity, or could it keep 110V?

[pupbiru@aussie.zone]

it would be kinda funny if UKs former colonies joined after brexit

[pubquiz@lemmy.world]

Finally an option that doesn't involve "negotiating" with a dementia-ridden publicity whore. I'd vote YES!!!

[kbal@fedia.io]

Okay everyone, time to get started working on a Eurovision entry.

[lumidaub@feddit.org]

I mean, arguably, conditions permitting, you don't necessarily need to be an actual, full fledged member of anything to participate. But in any case, yes, please do, we need new blood.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

Retooling the entire country would be a shit show at best, and prohibitively expensive, so they'd likely stay at their current spec. Also, energy trade is quite profitable, and for geographic regions it makes sense to keep standards aligned.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Our borders are sound, and we're not at war.

We have a land border with Denmark and a Sea border with France.

Let's go !

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

It's not about selling electricity, it's about having a single market for electrical devices. There's no single market if most products don't work in one country. Even different AC plugs are only allowed because adapters are cheap and using different plugs for Ireland and Italy is a minor change in the production line.

[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).