Thomas Byrne
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first heard May 2026
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Yeah, there's no status like that at the moment.
And I I think it's a very interesting proposal from President Ursul von der Leyen yesterday.
Uh there was general I was in the Parliament sitting beside Prime Minister Kearney when um Ursul von der Leyen made that announcement and it wasn't actually in her printed script.
So it was kept very um hush hush, although there was some briefing of course in in the last few days.
Um and the question is what does it mean?
The the thing about Canada is we already have an incredibly close relationship.
Whether Ireland or the EU.
Like we have an incredible trade agreement with them, which has seen real jobs all around this country resulting from it.
They have access to some EU programs as well.
There's a lot of you know, the Canadian Foreign Minister was at the the the recent meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Wicklow.
So there's there are huge connections already.
And the question is how do we build up those connections to an even greater extent?
And I think we'll hear from we will hear from Mark Carney.
now uh in about twenty five minutes uh and his response I think will be very, very interesting as to what the Canadians see uh in all of this.
Well, look, I mean, there's always ways of making the relationship closer.
Like, I mean, there's different relationships that the EU has with other countries.
So obviously the the member twenty seven member states among themselves, we've a particular relationship with the UK, we've a really complex but deep relationship with Switzerland, for example.
Uh so each entity, each country that we connect with, there's a different set of relationships.
And I think can what what's imagined for Canada is just to go as far as we can.
I mean, Canada's not going to be joining the EU like in
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