The European Union should create an associate-membership status for Canada

The political and economic process by which European countries pool policy-making through the European Union, including treaty reform, enlargement, the single market, common budgets and shared foreign, security and defence policy.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the European Union's first "associate member", although no such status presently exists in EU treaties and member states have not approved it. Canada is seeking a unique partnership rather than conventional EU membership, potentially encompassing trade, manufacturing, defence, artificial intelligence, energy, critical minerals and Arctic cooperation. President Donald Trump subsequently threatened trade measures if he considered the arrangement hostile to the United States.