I had already posted this with a lemm.ee account, and moved here because lemmy.world is hosted in EU, but seems like the post got deleted along with the account. I’m sorry for the possible spam.

For me it was the “languages” in settings, too. I had to select Undetermined, English and Spanish (which are the ones I speak), just in case, and it showed me my posts again.

I posted it to the front so it can be seen easily

If I’m not mistaken, per article 49 of the Treaty on European Union, it can’t.

Any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union. The European Parliament and national Parliaments shall be notified of this application. The applicant State shall address its application to the Council, which shall act unanimously after consulting the Commission and after receiving the consent of the European Parliament, which shall act by a majority of its component members. The conditions of eligibility agreed upon by the European Council shall be taken into account.

The conditions of admission and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the Union is founded, which such admission entails, shall be the subject of an agreement between the Member States and the applicant State. This agreement shall be submitted for ratification by all the contracting States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

For example, Morocco tried applying, but was rejected because it wasn’t considered an “European State”. So, from my point of view, either EU amends the article to allow non-European countries to join (maybe on the basis of cultural similarities? anyways, I don’t think it’s even feasible), or an special agreement/set of agreements to integrate it in the EU without actually making it part of the EU.

Yeah, I was thinking that, if Canada’s standards are so similar to the US’s, the problem is adjusting to the new ones, and not the difference between them per se.

For the regulations, I think slowly changing them to fit to EU standards, so industries can catch up, would be the best.

As for exports towards the US, aren’t there already institutions (like the Trade and Technology Council) used by US and EU for trade to be efficient despite regulation and standard diferences?

Of course, I don’t much about anything, so I’m mostly throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

Yeah, at least they (supposedly) have a chat to propose stuff. I already proposed EU-hosted Lemmy instances. What is matrix, by the way? First time I heard of it.

Agree, here there is a list of peertube instances:

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

And a few of the ones with most users and videos are European, too (btw, the instance peertube.tv is hosted in Finland by the same people who host lemmy.world)

That sounds nice, only bad thing is most people probably still don’t use it.

I had to pull out my web history because I didn’t remember the name or instance 😅