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Canada receives limited EU cooperation deal.
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The European Commission's offer last month caught EU capitals off guard, and Germany argued the status should be kept for countries hoping to join, like Ukraine. A draft joint statement for the Montreal summit, which runs Thursday and Friday, now promises only "an ever closer association" short of full membership. Under it, the two sides would work out what that means by the 2027 summit.
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