EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks

Source: The Guardian — Americas By Lisa O’Carroll in Brussels and Leyland Cecco in Toronto

EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks

Watered-down version of statement to be issued at end of Montreal summit instead offers ‘ever closer association’The EU has backed away from its offer to Canada to start talks on becoming an “associate member” after disagreements between member states just as an EU-Canada summit was set to begin in Montreal.A draft of a joint statement to be issued after the end of the summit, which runs Thursday and Friday, showed…

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