Canada, EU to finalize partnership next month

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Canada, EU to finalize partnership next month

The partnership pact boosts Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to shore up cooperation between the world’s “middle powers.”

The EU and Canada will consummate their expansive new partnership at a Montreal summit next month, Politico reported, furthering Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to shore up cooperation between the world’s “middle powers.”

Brussels and Ottawa plan to reduce trade barriers and collaborate on supply chains and minerals projects.

Standing up to US President Donald Trump has won Carney carte blanche to significantly increase military spending, streamline industrial and infrastructure projects, and diversify Canadian trade away from Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported: “I cannot remember, in my adult life, a prime minister having this good an 18 months,” the head of polling firm Ipsos said. “There has been very little pushback against any of the things that he’s proposed .”

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