{"id":241326,"date":"2026-09-29T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/what-is-an-eu-associate-member-why-is-canada-the-first\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:49:05","slug":"what-is-an-eu-associate-member-why-is-canada-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/what-is-an-eu-associate-member-why-is-canada-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an EU &#8220;associate member&#8221;? Why is Canada the first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission&#8217;s Ursula von der Leyen formally invited Canada to become the EU\u2019s first-ever \u201cassociate member\u201d. What is an \u201cassociate member\u201d and what does this mean for Canada and the EU?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/09\/29\/what-is-an-eus-associate-member-why-is-canada-the-first\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission&#8217;s Ursula von der Leyen formally invited Canada to become the EU\u2019s first-ever \u201cassociate member\u201d. What is an \u201cassociate member\u201d and what does this mean for Canada and the EU? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":241327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}