Carney explores EU ‘associate member’ status for Canada as US ties fray

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer ⁠relationship with the European Union and ⁠is exploring whether his country could become ⁠an “associate member” of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The EU, which has not been flexible about membership rules in the past, is open to the idea of granting Canada a yet-to-be-created status of associate membership, the newspaper rep