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Brussels summit opens the new chapter

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Carney met EU leaders in Brussels for the 20th Canada-EU summit. They announced a 'Strategic Partnership of the Future' and signed a Security and Defence Partnership, a framework for cooperation on defence priorities rather than a binding treaty, and set plans for Canada to join Europe's new defence-buying fund. Underneath sat the existing base: CETA, the free trade deal provisionally in force since 2017.

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This summit turned a trade relationship into a negotiating agenda across defence, trade and technology. A framework names intentions; every concrete piece after it still needed its own agreement, which is the pattern the whole story follows.

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CETA, the Canada-EU free trade agreement, has been provisionally in force since September 2017, and Canada-EU merchandise trade grew by more than 77 per cent between 2016 and 2025.

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At the June 23, 2025 summit in Brussels, Canada and the EU announced a Strategic Partnership of the Future and signed a Security and Defence Partnership, which Ottawa describes as a framework for dialogue and cooperation on defence priorities.

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