Carney’s trip to Europe aims to encourage trade, defense and energy cooperation

Economic and security ties are at the front and center while Prime Minister Mark Carney meets allies in the coming days in Eastern and Central Europe.

The Prime Minister will move not only in Germany, but also in Poland and Latvia, where he will meet the main commercial and political leaders, as well as the Canadian troops deployed throughout the region.

On Friday, the German trip of the trip was recognized Friday by Carney when he answered questions on the abolition of certain reciprocal rates in the United States.

“Canada has a good partnership with Germany. It has been built over the years, but it can be much, much better, and I am convinced that with this chancellor, and the objective of our government, that it will do it,” he said.

Carney said he would meet the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday in Berlin. Following his remarks, a senior government official has expanded the route, saying that there will be meetings with the main German business leaders.

Friday, the German government announced the scheduled meeting before Carney’s press conference.

In Poland, Canada is expected to finalize a bilateral strategic partnership focused on energy and security. Carney will also meet Canadian troops deployed in the country.

In Latvia, Carney will have a first -hand overview of the NATO brigade led by Canada and is expected to meet the Prime Minister of the Baltic Nation, Evika Siliņa.

“This visit to Europe is an opportunity to strengthen relations with European allies and to progress cooperation in key areas, including trade, energy, critical minerals and defense,” said the senior official who was authorized to speak solely.

The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson and the Minister of Defense David McGuinty will accompany the Prime Minister on different legs of the trip.

Look | The Prime Minister participates in a virtual meeting with the allies of Ukraine:

Carney attends a virtual meeting with the allies of Ukraine

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer organized a virtual meeting of Ukrainian allies on Tuesday, one day after the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders met American President Donald Trump to discuss the war in Ukraine. It comes after Trump met Russian president Vladimir Putin last Friday to discuss it.

Canada can play an “important role” in the Ukrainian peace agreement

Meetings with allies take place as uncertainty falls on the offer of American president Donald Trump to negotiate a peace regulation between Russia and Ukraine.

Russia has intensified its bombing campaign – launching one of its heaviest attacks in missiles and drones since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022 – after last week’s summit between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with NBC News on Friday that there was no plan for Putin to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Putin would meet Zelenskyy “when the agenda is ready for a summit,” he said, noting that “this program is not at all ready”.

Lavrov also accused Zelenskyy of not accepting the negotiation conditions requested by Russia, namely discussion on “territorial questions”.

At the same time, Ukraine is looking for concrete security guarantees from the Allies, including the United States, before accepting a potential peace agreement. Carney said he spoke with Trump of the subject.

As a member of the “coalition of willingly” led by France and Great Britain, Carney said that Canada will have a role to play in security guarantees. But precisely what it will look like is uncertain.

“Canada has the potential to have an important role,” said Prime Minister. “So we are very committed to these sets of problems.”

Appearing last week on CBC radio The houseThe best military commander in Canada, General Jennie Carignan, said that she had had a number of discussions with other Allied defense leaders and that the form of involvement of each country is still being determined.

Many will depend on what the ceasefire or the potential peace agreement will look like: “There will be a lot of unknown at the moment, but one thing is certain, it is that they will need a training and development requirement for the Ukrainian forces to assume their own security,” said Carignan, defense staff chief.

In Kyiv, on the other hand, the secretary general of the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty met with the best Ukrainian officials.

“We are now working together – Ukraine, Europeans, the United States – to ensure that these security guarantees are of such a level that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seated in Moscow will never try to attack Ukraine again,” said Mark Rutte.