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Should Canada Join the EU?
A recent poll shows Canadian support for full EU membership.

57% of Canadians support Canada becoming a full EU member
32% oppose, with the rest undecided
Net support: +25

Beyond membership, support for cooperation is even strong, 84% of Canadians back strengthening economic and trade ties with the EU.

Is Canada slowly pivoting toward Europe in a changing global order? 👇

Source: Nanos Report

What if expanding the EU actually makes it more stable?

That's the argument the European Parliament is making and it's worth thinking about.

The logic: every country outside the European Union is a potential candidate for outside powers to gain a foothold. Brining them in removes that risk.

But it's not a free pass. Candidates have to actually deliver democracy, rule of law, real institutional reform. No shortcuts.

Right now Ukraine and Moldova are the ones putting in the work. Whether they get there is another question.

And then there's Iceland. Iceland originally applied to join the EU back in 2009, but talks were put on ice after a change of government. Government of Iceland Now it's back on the table the Icelandic government has announced a national referendum on 29 August 2026 to decide whether to resume those negotiations. And the timing isn't a coincidence Trump's threats toward Greenland have a lot of Icelanders reconsidering where their future lies.

The uncomfortable truth? Not expanding might end up costing Europe more than expanding does.

The EU has always been a work in progress. Maybe that's the point.

On April 18, 1951, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany signed the Treaty of Paris, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

The idea was simple but radical: countries that had been tearing each other apart in two World Wars would now share control of coal and steel, the very resources that had fueled those wars. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, one of the key architects, believed that making war between France and Germany "not only unthinkable but materially impossible" was the path to lasting peace.

From that agreement, the European Economic Community grew, and eventually the European Union now home to 27 member states.

75 years later, with the EU facing pressures from within and without, it's worth remembering what it was built on: the radical idea that cooperation beats conflict.

Happy 75th to European integration. 🇪🇺

📊 Data from Polling Europe – April 2026

A clear political signal: Europeans want a Union that can act.

Today, the veto power allows a single Member State to block common decisions. In an increasingly unstable world, this means delays, paralysis, and inefficiency.

Overcoming the veto is not just a technical reform. It is a political choice.

➡️ It means a more responsive Europe

➡️ A more credible global actor

➡️ A Union capable of acting in times of crisis

But removing the veto is not enough.

Without strengthening European democracy, we risk shifting power without making it more legitimate.

That’s why the next step is essential:

🇪🇺 a stronger European Parliament

🇪🇺 more democratic institutions

🇪🇺 a true capacity to decide together

Because a Europe that decides must also be a Europe that represents. The support is there. Now we need political courage.

📊 Data from Polling Europe – April 2026

A clear political signal: Europeans want a Union that can act.

Today, the veto power allows a single Member State to block common decisions. In an increasingly unstable world, this means delays, paralysis, and inefficiency.

Overcoming the veto is not just a technical reform. It is a political choice.

➡️ It means a more responsive Europe

➡️ A more credible global actor

➡️ A Union capable of acting in times of crisis

But removing the veto is not enough.

Without strengthening European democracy, we risk shifting power without making it more legitimate.

That’s why the next step is essential:

🇪🇺 a stronger European Parliament

🇪🇺 more democratic institutions

🇪🇺 a true capacity to decide together

Because a Europe that decides must also be a Europe that represents.

The support is there. Now we need political courage.

In 2025, 76.1% of the EU’s 20 to 64-year-olds were employed. 💼🏢

Highest employment rates in:

• 🇲🇹Malta (83.6%)

• 🇳🇱Netherlands (83.4%)

• 🇨🇿Czechia (82.9%)

Lowest in:

• 🇮🇹Italy (67.6%)

• 🇷🇴Romania (69.0%)

• 🇬🇷Greece (71.0%)

ℹ️ Note that the map includes EU, EFTA and candidate countries with available data. The ranking in the caption is based on EU countries only.

Learn more 👉 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260417-1

The European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027.

More ↓

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

A Lord Ashcroft poll has recorded something never seen before in British politics — a three-way tie at the top, with Reform UK, the Green Party, and the Conservative Party all sitting at 21%.

Labour trails at 17%, the Lib Dems at 9%, and others on 11%.

EDIT
Prediction: The UK will join the European Union before 2035 maybe even 2030 if this trends continue.

🔗 https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/green-party-poll-top-reform-voting-intention-2026-404751/

Forrester dropped their Cloud Sovereignty Wave this quarter. The leaders? Google, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle. All American.

Here’s the thing nobody in the report seems to want to say out loud: it doesn’t matter where the data center is. Under the US CLOUD Act and FISA, American companies can be legally compelled — quietly, without notifying you — to hand your data to US authorities.

A Google data center in Frankfurt is still Google. A Microsoft server in Amsterdam is still subject to US law.

Meanwhile, OVHcloud (French), STACKIT (German), T-Systems (German) — companies actually outside US legal jurisdiction — are buried in the lower tiers. Why?

Opinion: Europe need to describe what a sovereign cloud is. Without a legal definition, it means whatever the vendor wants it to mean.

History has been written tonight. 🇭🇺 🇪🇺

Orbán just congratulated with

@magyar_peter_official_the_man for the victory to the elections.

For too long, Hungary was used as a wall to block the progress we so desperately needed. But today, that wall has fallen.

By choosing Europe, Hungary has removed one of the greatest obstacles to our shared future.

The path toward a Federal Europe is finally clear. The shadows of vetoes and systemic obstruction are lifting. We are no longer a continent held back by the few; we are a Union.