The EU has backed away from calling Canada a future “associate member” in a joint summit statement with Ottawa, after the wording raised hackles among its member states, diplomats said Wednesday. Instead, the draft text circulated among the bloc’s 27 countries ahead of the Friday summit in Montreal, vows to pursue “an ever-closer association of […]
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