Canada-EU alliance isn’t meant to be a US rival with ‘better manners,’ Carney says

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took a swipe at US President Donald Trump on Thursday, insisting that his proposed new tie-up with the European Union isn’t intended simply to be a new geopolitical bloc with “better manners.”

“I’m not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival, only with better manners,” he told EU lawmakers in France.

“We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten territorial integrity or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.”

Carney’s comments come a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed that Canada become the bloc’s first “associate member,” provoking a fresh tariff threat from Trump.

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加拿大总理马克·卡尼周四抨击美国总统唐纳德·特朗普，坚称他提出的与欧盟建立新关系的提议并非仅仅是为了建立一个“更有礼貌”的新地缘政治集团。

“我提议建立第三个阵营，不是为了成为大国竞争对手，只是为了举止更加得体，”他在法国对欧盟议员们说。

“我们不追求权力来支配他人。相反，我们追求的是韧性，这样任何人都无法控制我们的开放市场，损害我们的主权，威胁领土完整，或破坏我们的自由、民主和法治。”

卡尼发表上述言论的前一天，欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩提议加拿大成为欧盟第一个“联系成员国”，此举引发了特朗普新的关税威胁。

这是一则正在更新的新闻。