随着国际形势对欧盟日益严峻，该集团正寻求加强与志同道合盟友的联系。加拿大是欧盟表示希望建立的架构的一部分。
As the international context becomes more challenging for the European Union, the bloc is looking to boost its ties with like-minded allies. Canada is part of that architecture that the EU says it wants to build.
欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩九月的国情咨文演讲中的重大新闻是，加拿大可能成为准成员国——这是欧盟目前合作伙伴中不存在的一种安排。
The big news of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech in September was that Canada could become an associate member – an arrangement that does not exist for the EU's partners at the moment.