“欧盟必须将其向加拿大提出的‘准成员国’资格转变为一种实质性的合作关系，这种关系不应仅仅局限于贸易领域，”欧洲议会负责加拿大事务的常设报告员托比亚斯·克雷默对Euronews表示。
The EU must turn its offer of “associate membership” to Canada into a meaningful partnership that goes well beyond trade, Tobias Cremer, the European Parliament's standing rapporteur on Canada, told Euronews.
欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩于9月邀请加拿大成为欧盟的首个“准成员国”，但并未详细说明这一前所未有的地位在实践中具体意味着什么。
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first “associate member” in September, but gave little indication of what the unprecedented status would mean in practice.
当前，地缘政治的动荡正在推动布鲁塞尔与渥太华之间的关系更加紧密：加拿大正与其传统的盟友美国陷入贸易争端，而欧盟则在努力争取美国在乌克兰问题上的支持。
The offer comes as geopolitical upheaval draws Brussels and Ottawa closer together. Canada is embroiled in a trade war with its traditional US ally, while the EU is struggling to keep Washington on its side over Ukraine.
双方计划于下周末在蒙特利尔举行峰会，预计将在包括关键原材料供应和数字合作等多个领域达成协议。
“过去几个月里，加拿大和欧洲之间的关系非常融洽，我们一直在互相表达友好态度，也表达了彼此希望合作的强烈愿望，”德国社会党籍的欧洲议会议员克雷默说。
The two sides are due to meet at a summit in Montreal at the end of next week, with agreements expected in several areas, including critical raw materials and digital cooperation.“For the last couple of months, we've been great, Canada and Europe, at writing each other love letters and saying how much we really want to work together,” said Cremer, a German socialist MEP.
“但我认为，现在确实是时候开始认真对待，把这段‘爱情故事’转化为具体的承诺。”他补充道：“‘准成员国’地位必须意味着欧盟能向非欧洲国家提供的‘最紧密伙伴关系’，而既然加拿大大概是非欧洲国家中‘最欧洲化’的国家，这种关系理应非常紧密。”超越贸易协定克雷默坚称，这种关系必须不仅仅是“一份贸易协定‘加’”。
“But I think now is really the time to start to get serious and turn that love story into concrete commitments.”He added that “associate membership” must mean the “closest possible partnership that the EU can offer to a non-European country and since Canada is probably the most European of non-European countries that should be very close.”Beyond trade dealsCremer insisted that the relationship must amount to more than “a trade deal ‘plus’”.“There must be a new quality to the relation.”
“关系必须具备新的质量。”他呼吁采取“务实方法”，通过涵盖贸易、国防、数字合作、北极事务和学生交流等领域的部门协议来推进，但也要更进一步。“我们应该更进一步，开始将所有这些优秀的倡议嵌入到更持久的东西中，嵌入到一个共同的协调与合作制度框架中。”
He called for a “pragmatic approach,” involving sectoral agreements covering trade, defence, digital cooperation, the Arctic and students, but also going further.“We should go a step further and start embedding all of these great initiatives into something more enduring, into a common institutional framework of coordination and cooperation.”
克雷默建议，加拿大可以“以观察员身份”参与欧盟理事会（各国部长在此会晤）的工作，并呼吁建立一个正式的议会伙伴关系大会。这样的机构可以参照现有的欧盟-英国议会伙伴关系大会模式，后者汇集双方各35名成员，每年举行两次会议，会议可聚焦特定政策领域。
Cremer suggested that Canada could participate “as an observer” in the Council of the EU, where national ministers meet, and called for the creation of a formal parliamentary partnership assembly. Such a body could follow the model of the existing EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, which brings together 35 members from each side twice a year for sessions that can focus on specific policy areas.
然而，关于英国，这位欧洲议会议员将其描述为一个欧洲国家，对于该国，“如果它愿意的话”，目标“不应是准成员国身份，而应是正式成员国身份。”
Regarding the UK, however, the MEP described it as a European country for which, “if it wishes so,” the ambition “should not be associate membership, but full membership.”
他的言论之际，英国首相安迪·伯纳姆近期提出了重返欧盟的想法，民调显示多数英国人希望回归欧盟集团。
His comments came as UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently floated the idea of rejoining the EU, with polls showing that a majority of Britons want to return to the bloc.
但克雷默也主张，不仅要与英国和加拿大，还要与澳大利亚、韩国等国家加强合作。“我认为，将所有这些行为体聚集在一起，告诉他们‘等等，实际上世界大多数国家都想玩21世纪的政治游戏，聚焦集体安全、共同利益、相互尊重，而非强权即公理’，这符合我们的利益。”
But Cremer also argued for closer cooperation not only with the UK and Canada, but also with countries such as Australia and South Korea.“I think it is of our interest to bring all of these actors together and say 'hold on, actually the majority of the world wants to play 21st century politics which is focused on collective security, on shared interests, on mutual respect rather than might is right.'”