EU-Canada 2025 Summit: Strong Ties, Bold Goals

Increase trade flows and promote economic security

• Support businesses to grow and diversify markets by fully and effectively implementing CETA.
• Modernize our approach to trade by launching work towards a Digital Trade Agreement that would complement CETA.
• Create tools for businesses to better support trade diversification, such as facilitating B2B matchmaking, cluster-to-cluster cooperation, and supporting the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
• Advance our collaboration in the EU-Canada Economic Security Dialogue. Political and technical exchanges will allow us to identify trends and risks of mutual concern that could affect our economic security, and cooperation on possible policy responses.
• Reduce barriers and strengthen agriculture and agrifood trade.
• Prepare ourselves for the energy needs of the future, by cooperating more closely and exploring options to work together on more resilient, diversified, reliable energy supply chains, including clean tech value chains, LNG, renewables, safe and sustainable low-carbon hydrogen and other safe and sustainable low-carbon technologies, in view of increasing bilateral trade and strengthening energy security.
• Continue the existing cooperation on nuclear technologies, including fuels and fuel cycle services, through the negotiation of a modernized and comprehensive Canada-Euratom Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.
• Strengthen labour mobility by facilitating the movement of highly skilled workers, and explore shared interests in exchanging information about immigration partnerships.

Foster competitiveness and resilience through strengthened cooperation in strategic value chains

• Launch a new EU-Canada Industrial Policy Dialogue to boost industrial and supply chain cooperation in strategic sectors.
• Promote projects and investments that reduce supply chain risks and foster resilience and the competitiveness of our industries and critical goods (e.g. semiconductors), including by promoting projects that abide by environmental, social and governance standards.
• Work together closely to ensure security and diversity in the supply of minerals and metals critical to our mutual security and the green and digital transitions, including by exploring new opportunities to facilitate the two-way flow of investment, materials and expertise through the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership on Raw Materials.
• Complete the negotiations for a renewed Canada-EU Competition Cooperation Agreement, providing a legal framework to coordinate enforcement activities and share information obtained through investigative powers in full respect of data privacy guarantees in both jurisdictions, as soon as possible.

Deepen regulatory alignment

• Identify opportunities for increased regulatory alignment between Canada and the EU, including through advancing work under CETA's Protocol on the Mutual Acceptance of the Results of Conformity Assessment.
• Bolster formal consultative mechanisms on EU and Canadian legislation and regulations, including CETA's Regulatory Cooperation Forum.

Increase transatlantic security through a new era of EU-Canada security and defence cooperation, including the full implementation of the EU-Canada Security and Defence Partnership

• Bolster our bilateral dialogue and operational cooperation in all areas of joint interest in support of peace, security and defence - such as maritime security, cyber issues and hybrid threats.
• Advance cooperation on the climate-security nexus and expand joint efforts in maritime security by identifying opportunities for coordinated naval activities.
• Expand cooperation on defence capabilities, in particular by creating opportunities for increased defence industrial cooperation.
• Secure and protect our democratic institutions by preventing and countering foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) through increased cooperation through relevant EU, Canadian and multilateral initiatives, such as the Canada-hosted G7 Rapid Response Mechanism.
• Consider Canada's further participation in EU Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects, with an aim towards joint development of capabilities and greater interoperability.
• Increase defence procurement cooperation through Canadian collaboration with ReArm Europe/Readiness 2030:

• launch work towards a bilateral agreement related to the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) instrument
• explore the possibility of establishing an administrative arrangement between Canada and the European Defence Agency

Shape the digital transition and promote exchanges in education and on innovation for technologies of the future

• Deepen cooperation in the framework of the EU-Canada Digital Partnership, and hold the first EU-Canada Digital Partnership Council later this year to drive this process forward.
• Advance cooperation on AI, cybersecurity, secure digital communication and advanced connectivity, secure and trusted communications infrastructure (including 5G and subsea cables), the transparency and resilience of global tech supply chains, digital identity, quantum science, data spaces, online platforms and fighting FIMI.
• Advance regulatory cooperation under the Digital Partnership, notably in AI and cybersecurity, so as to work towards the mutual recognition of AI and cybersecurity product certification including under the CETA Protocol on Conformity Assessment.
• Deepen collaboration by leveraging Canada's association to Horizon Europe, including on high priority topics, and exploring its potential participation in EU's 10th Framework Programme.
• Expand cooperation for access to world-class high-performance computing infrastructure through Horizon Europe.
• Support research and industrial collaboration in research security, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum sciences, cyber security, climate change, oceans, circular economy, polar research and researcher mobility and training, including through the Canada-EU Digital Partnership and under the EU-Canada Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement.
• Promote and defend the freedom of academic and scientific research and the protection of scientists.
• Increase people to people ties, improve mobility and recognition, including in higher education and research through Erasmus+, the European Research Council and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions.

Fight climate change and environmental degradation and facilitate the transition to climate neutrality

• Support for carbon pricing and industrial decarbonisation as priority cooperation areas to combat climate change.
• Bolster competitiveness through cooperation on carbon pricing systems and carbon border measures.
• Work with international partners to promote the full, swift and effective implementation of the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
• Collaborate to achieve an internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollution covering the full lifecycle of plastics at INC 5.2.
• Collaborate on the implementation of the Just Energy Transition Partnerships.
• Jointly call for ambitious action to implement the Paris Agreement, in line with efforts to keep the 1.5°C warming goal within reach.
• Continue working with other international partners to promote relevant international instruments to combatting climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
• Welcome Canada joining the Global Energy Transition Forum launched by the European Commission to deliver on the goals of tripling the world's renewable energy capacity and doubling the global annual rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030 in parallel to a transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems.
• Work together as co-conveners of the Global Methane Pledge to deliver on the goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.
• Advance cooperation on the climate–security nexus by exploring a Climate-Security Dialogue.

Crisis management

• Advance public and private investments, notably in sustainable, inclusive, resilient and quality infrastructure, including through our shared G7 commitment under the Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment and the EU's Global Gateway strategy. At the same time, we recognise that investments in human development are a key enabling factor for just and sustainable digital and green transitions.
• Strengthen cooperation on international crisis response and enhance cooperation on emergency management with the signing of an Administrative Arrangement between the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and the European External Action Service on international cooperation in emergency planning and crisis response.
• Respond more effectively to humanitarian crises and explore the possibility of a humanitarian administrative arrangement to align priorities and facilitate coordination.
• Build health security and resilience through enhanced partnerships, including an administrative arrangement on medical countermeasures.
• Building on the sale of 22 Canadian-built DHC-515 water bombers to the EU and Member States, explore further opportunities to share mutually beneficial technology and expertise in combating disasters.

Justice and Home Affairs

• Explore cooperation between Eurojust, the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the Canadian authorities in the field of criminal justice.