{"id":10139,"date":"2026-09-22T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/news\/frederic-merand-canada-membre-associe-de-lunion-europeenne-a-quoi-pourrait-ressembler-ce-statut-inedit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:44:59","slug":"frederic-merand-canada-membre-associe-de-lunion-europeenne-a-quoi-pourrait-ressembler-ce-statut-inedit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/news\/frederic-merand-canada-membre-associe-de-lunion-europeenne-a-quoi-pourrait-ressembler-ce-statut-inedit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric M\u00e9rand &#8211; Canada &#8220;membre associ\u00e9&#8221; de l&#8217;Union europ\u00e9enne : \u00e0 quoi pourrait ressembler ce statut in\u00e9dit ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"1198\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric M\u00e9rand, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, spoke to RTL about the proposal for Canada to become an <strong data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"936\">\u201cassociate member\u201d of the European Union<\/strong>. He discusses the still-undefined contours of this closer relationship, which could go beyond free trade without amounting to EU membership, as well as the areas in which Canada-EU cooperation could be further strengthened.<\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1229\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\ud83d\udc49Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl.fr\/actu\/international\/canada-membre-associe-de-l-union-europeenne-a-quoi-pourrait-ressembler-ce-statut-inedit-7900675400\">RTL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric M\u00e9rand, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, spoke to RTL about the proposal for Canada to become an \u201cassociate member\u201d of the European Union. He discusses the still-undefined contours of this closer relationship, which could go beyond free trade without amounting to EU membership, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10139\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}