Canada and Europe share entwined past and future

Canada’s participation in PESCO’s work constitutes a vital development significantly augmenting the transatlantic bond and contributing to the EU and NATO co-operation.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are pictured in Centre Block in April 2018. For Canada, NATO and the European Union play a central role in its foreign policy, but Canada’s strategic interests in Europe began long before NATO or the European Union were established, writes Estonian Ambassador Toomas Lukk.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TOOMAS LUKK

June 7, 2021

In today’s geopolitical realm, the arc of instability spans from the Middle East to North Africa and from Asia to the Americas. The world faces threats of terrorism, climate change, refugee crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and also irresponsible and destabilizing behaviours of authoritarian regimes....

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