Carney pursues ‘unique alliance’ with EU as Canada pivots away from US

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is touring Europe this week, attending Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address and addressing the European Parliament as he pushes for a closer, undefined relationship with the EU amid an escalating trade war with Washington.

Carney insists Canada does not want EU membership, only a trip also included stops with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron, with talks planned on AI, energy, defense and critical minerals, plus a Canada-EU summit set for Montreal in October.

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You can hear the trade war in every polite word here, Canada shopping for new friends because the old one keeps threatening to move the fence line. Calling it a 'unique alliance' instead of membership is the diplomatic version of saying you're just neighbors who happen to share a mailbox. Finland's president said the quiet part out loud, and that's usually the most honest moment in any summit.

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