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The EU proposed exploring associate-member status for Canada, while Mark Carney backed closer cooperation. Canada is also seeking a wider alliance with Europe, and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne urged the UK to join it.
Small boats crossing the English Channel declined.
Bernd Lange said the UK could pursue a Switzerland-style relationship with the EU, expanded to include political engagement, and that an agreement could be negotiated quickly. He also backed including the UK in the EU’s proposed Made in Europe legislation.
Switzerland’s framework deal provides frictionless single-market access through more than 100 agreements.
The article reports that the US and European countries are deporting more Russian nationals, including activists and military deserters who say they face persecution, imprisonment or military service if returned to Russia.
People deported from the US to Russia in 2023
France and Germany backed a provisional deal to ease EU vehicle emissions requirements and include Britain in the bloc’s “made in Europe” framework for cars. The deal still requires final approval from Germany.
The European Commission proposed a 90% reduction in new-vehicle exhaust emissions.
EU leaders are divided over the European Union’s nearly two-trillion-euro budget for 2028–2034 and want a compromise by year-end, ahead of elections across the bloc. Ireland’s latest proposal would cut the budget by about €140 billion.
The budget under negotiation is worth nearly EUR 2000000000000.
The United Kingdom trades almost twice as much with the European Union as it does with the United States.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Russia had supplied European Union countries with $320.7 billion worth of energy resources since 2022. A Swedish minister compared the figure with EU support for Ukraine.
AllegedAlexander Novak said Russian energy deliveries to European Union countries since 2022 totaled $320.7 billion.