Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 17 hours agoSurprising Share Of Canadians Support EU Membershipcanadianpolling.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down12
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minus-squareMuffi@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 hours agoWhy would that matter? It’s a political and economical union, not a geographical one.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoIt’s literally one of their requirements.
minus-squareFabian@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 hours agoAs the parliament says In order to apply for EU membership, a country has to be European and respect the EU’s democratic values https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20180126STO94113/enlargement-how-do-countries-join-the-eu Since according to Article 49 The applicant country must […] be a European state; https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0ae670d2-1ece-4994-b1e3-adda39e1c6de.0006.03/DOC_1
Why would that matter? It’s a political and economical union, not a geographical one.
It’s literally one of their requirements.
As the parliament says
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20180126STO94113/enlargement-how-do-countries-join-the-eu
Since according to Article 49
https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0ae670d2-1ece-4994-b1e3-adda39e1c6de.0006.03/DOC_1