New polling suggests Canadians are rapidly warming up to the idea of joining the European Union

I am asking myself if the Canadian population knows what that means to them. At irregular intervals, the EU is given more powers in order to have more power. There is currently a debate about whether the 27 armies should be converted into a European army. This would also affect you if you are part of the EU. In many areas, Canada would lose its powers and passing them on to the EU. This can be seen very clearly in financial policy. You would have to adopt the Euro as your currency and the European Central Bank would make interest rate policy. Of course there are more positive things, but you have to understand and accept that you would lose some of your independence.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    16·
    9 hours ago

    Several countries in the EU does not have the euro.

    The european army is probably never going to exist, instead a coalition will, which is much better anyways (so Orban can’t fuck things up, for example).

    In the EU, everything is negotiable except the free trade and free movement (maybe some more, I’m not a specialist)!

    • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
      3·
      4 hours ago

      There were exceptions when the EU was formed for things like currency, but I don’t think they’re allowing that anymore. If the UK wanted to rejoin, they’d have to switch to the Euro - they had a lot of favourable exceptions made for them to be in the EU in the first place, and they just gave them up.

    • NewDay@feddit.orgOP
      6·
      7 hours ago

      In the EU, everything is negotiable except the free trade and free movement

      That is not right. Every country must transpose all EU directives into national law. If they fail to do so, they have to pay fines.

      Example

      The delayed implementation of the EU directive on the protection of whistleblowers into national law is costing Germany dearly. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered Germany to pay a fine of 34 million euros to the EU for breaching its obligations. The Luxembourg judges justified the move with the importance of the high level of protection required by the directive for whistleblowers who report breaches of EU law.

      …

      With its ruling in case C-149/23, the ECJ is complying with a complaint filed by the EU Commission in February 2023. The member states were actually obliged to take the necessary measures to legally comply with the provisions of the directive by the end of 2021. The German government was unable to notify the Commission of implementation because the black-red coalition initially failed to agree on a common line. At the time, the SPD wanted the law to also apply to infringements of German law. This was not just in areas such as financial services and tenders, product and food safety, data protection, the environment and health, which are regulated throughout the EU. CDU and CSU were against it.

      https://www.heise.de/en/news/Late-whistleblower-protection-Germany-must-pay-a-fine-of-34-million-euros-10307299.html