Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic ADVERTISEMENTHe has never been to Canada but he loves the country. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s a dream of freedom and a better America,\u201d Joachim Streit, a member of the liberal Renew group, told Euronews. \u201cA dream of emigrants which many others have lived out.\u201d What first seemed a political prank has become a semi-serious debate, as US President Donald Trump has taunted and provoked Canadians with talk of converting Canada into the 51st state. When, in mid-March, Canada\u2019s new prime minister Mark Carney broke with tradition by visiting Europe rather than Washington for his first foreign trip as his country\u2019s leader, Carney told his hosts in Paris that Canada is \u201cthe most European of non-European countries\u201d, alluding to his country\u2019s French and British roots. Some in Brussels felt encouraged to push for more, and Joachim Streit was among them. Emboldened by the publication in late February of polls suggesting that a stunning 46% of Canadians would support Canada joining the EU, Streit took the issue to the European Commission again. Brussels had already felt compelled to react to intense chatter on social media advocating EU membership following ongoing hostile rhetoric from Trump.In a March briefing, a Commission spokeswoman pointed to Article 49 of the Treaty of the European Union which stipulates that \u201cany European State\u2026 may apply to become a member\u201d \u2013 in other words: ONLY European states.In a parliamentary question to the bloc\u2019s executive body a few days later, Streit underlined the lasting advantages of Canadian membership for the EU.It would \u201cexpand its single market, create sales opportunities, facilitate the exchange of goods and services, and be better able to withstand threats of tariffs and global security risks.\u201d Would the Commission propose a legal revision of Article 49 to allow Canadian membership, Streit asked. He is still waiting for a response. The term \u201cEuropean state\u201d could be legally flexible, Streit told Euronews. After all, there is the EU member Cyprus which is technically a west Asian state. And there are French and Dutch territories in the Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese islands in the Atlantic and Greenland, an autonomous region in the Kingdom of Denmark \u2013 all (currently) part of the European Union. Greenland and Canada even share a land border between Ellesmere Island and Greenland\u2019s north westernmost tip in winter when solidly frozen sea ice creates a land bridge.In fact, Canadian military has reportedly turned back Inuit who wandered across the Robeson Channel, the northern part of the Nares Strait, on foot into Canadian territory in the past. Thus, Streit sees Canada and the EU as existing neighbours and partners and feels that more needs to be done. \u201cSometimes in history, doors open and then shut again. And sometimes, the doors are open only for a brief moment\u201d, Streit said in a committee hearing in the European Parliament in early April.ADVERTISEMENTIn late April, Streit wrote a letter to two EU Commissioners, Roxana Minzatu and Ekaterina Zaharieva, in charge of social rights and research respectively, urging them \u201cto set up a framework of academic and professional exchange\u201d between Canada and the EU.\u201cThis would allow EU officials to get more familiar with the particularities of Canada, and at the same time, it would allow Canadian officials to also learn EU policy-making with the EU institutions\u201d, Streit wrote in the letter seen by Euronews. He calls it a \u201cpolitical Erasmus\u201d framework.Such an initiative could be a stepping stone to Canada\u2019s EU membership, Streit hopes. If not a full membership, at least a close relationship like with Switzerland or Norway.\u201cAfter all, we are people of the same ilk with the same set of values. Where else do we find this?\u201dADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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