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Mark Carney to address European Parliament amid US-Canada trade tensions
Upcoming address
Mark Carney will address the European Parliament on September 17 as part of efforts to strengthen EU-Canada ties amid escalating trade tensions with the US.
Mark Carney will address the European Parliament on September 17 as part of efforts to strengthen EU-Canada ties amid escalating trade tensions with the US.
Strategic Partnership
The meetings highlight a significant shift towards deeper economic and political alignment between Canada and the EU amid escalating tensions with the US, impacting future trade negotiations.
The meetings highlight a significant shift towards deeper economic and political alignment between Canada and the EU amid escalating tensions with the US, impacting future trade negotiations.
EU-Canada Ties
“The Prime Minister’s important visit will be an opportunity to deepen EU-Canada ties and strengthen our bond,” said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.
“The Prime Minister’s important visit will be an opportunity to deepen EU-Canada ties and strengthen our bond,” said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.
Mark Carney to address European Parliament as Canada turns to Brussels amid Trump’s tariff hammer
Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next month as Canada and the EU seek closer ties as the split with the US escalates under President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The Canadian Prime Minister will address the European Parliament on September 17 and attend European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech, which sets out the EU’s policy priorities and political direction, a day prior.
While inviting guests of honour is not uncommon, Carney’s invitation is more political than in previous years, when Brussels opted for civil society figures and focused on Ukraine. The timing also follows Carney’s pledge to seek an ever-closer partnership with the EU as the US-Canada trade war escalates in a historic clash.
“The Prime Minister’s important visit will be an opportunity to deepen EU-Canada ties and strengthen our bond,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola wrote on X on Wednesday.
Last week, trade talks between Canada and the US collapsed after months of difficult negotiations, with Ottawa accusing Washington of interfering in its sovereignty by demanding concessions on the French language, limiting its ability to strike separate trade deals and making excessive demands with too little in return.
The Trump administration argues that Canada is protected by the US, has underspent on defence and that Carney is using “tough guy” tactics for political gain.
The US has imposed duties of up to 50% on Canadian products worth $20 billion (€17 billion) and threatened more duties on key sectors. Canada said it would respond with counter-tariffs “dollar for dollar”, in an unprecedented escalation between the two North American neighbours.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is also considering renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America”, following his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Trump has repeatedly referred to Canada as a US state and questioned the border between the two countries, arguing that it was drawn arbitrarily “with a ruler”.
Carney, a former central banker, has advocated for a coalition of so-called middle powers as the international order is thrown into disarray, with the US pursuing an aggressive tariff agenda and seeking greater alignment from its allies.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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