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Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereignty

TA-10-2026-0078 · P10_TA(2026)0078 · PE778.092

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Parliament recommends that the Council, Commission and High Representative deepen EU-Canada cooperation across foreign policy, security, trade, Arctic governance and multilateralism, responding to geopolitical threats and Canada's economic stability and sovereignty. It urges full implementation of the 2025 summit outcomes, including Canada's participation in the SAFE programme, and calls for enhanced defence industrial integration, joint Arctic security measures, and stronger trade ties under CETA. It also stresses support for Ukraine, accountability for war crimes, and cooperation on digital trade, raw materials, energy, research, and democratic resilience.

Key points

  1. Calls for elevating the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership and implementing the 23 June 2025 summit conclusions, including Canada's participation in the SAFE programme.
  2. Urges deeper cooperation on security threats: Russia's war, hybrid attacks, terrorism, China's assertiveness, US retreat from rules-based order, climate change, AI, cybersecurity, and Middle East.
  3. Recommends integrating Canada into the EU's defence industrial base, including supply chains, icebreaker shipbuilding, and 5G security standards; encourages Member States to allow Canadian firms in public procurement.
  4. Calls for joint drone and counter-drone training centres, a bilateral agreement for secure co-production of counter-UAS capabilities, and expansion of Canada's participation in PESCO projects.
  5. Urges coordinated support for Ukraine, including using immobilised Russian assets for a reparation loan, sanctions coordination, and establishing a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression.
  6. Calls for joint efforts on the Arctic: deeper cooperation on security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and infrastructure, while countering militarisation and safeguarding Greenland's autonomy.
  7. Promotes CETA's benefits, urges full implementation and ratification by the 10 remaining Member States, and calls for negotiations on a digital trade agreement and stronger enforcement of trade and sustainable development provisions.
  8. Calls for cooperation on raw materials, energy security, and nuclear technologies, including a modernised Canada-Euratom agreement.
  9. Urges coordination on global development, addressing the dismantling of USAID and the pause in US foreign assistance.
  10. Calls for enhanced people-to-people ties, mutual recognition of professional qualifications, and cooperation on AI governance, social media regulation, and democratic resilience.

Who is affected

  • Canada and the EU: deepened cooperation across security, trade, Arctic, and digital policies.
  • Canadian enterprises: encouraged to participate in EU public procurement and defence supply chains.
  • Indigenous peoples in the Arctic: their free, prior and informed consent must be ensured for projects affecting their lands.
  • Member States: urged to ratify CETA and consider new PESCO projects with Canada.
  • Greenland: its autonomy and agency are to be safeguarded in Arctic cooperation.

Figures and deadlines

  • 10 Member States have not yet ratified CETA.
  • 10-year anniversary of CETA's provisional application in 2027.