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Posted on 06/04/2026 1:53:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Finnish President Alexander Stubb has outlined his vision for a much larger European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc needs to "think big" and seize the moment to project power on the global stage.
Speaking at an energy conference in the Finnish capital on Wednesday, Stubb said the EU should push to increase its membership to 40 states and named the U.K., Canada, Turkey, Norway and Iceland as potential candidates to join.
His comments come as the Trump administration's actions, alongside Russia's war with Ukraine, prompt some countries to reconsider the benefits of EU membership.
Stubb told the Eurelectric Power Summit that "the window of opportunity" for EU enlargement "is quite short because when the war in Ukraine ends and perhaps when the U.S. administration changes, I don't know, then people are going to take their foot off the gas pedal and start heckling about unnecessary stuff again."
Stubb added that "European strategic autonomy or European geopolitical power" is "often based on size and scale and I think the best European policy ever has been European enlargement."
"In this moment, we need to think big and geographically, we need to enlarge or at least create memberships which are flexible enough to bring in a sum total of 40 European states — or even non-European," Stubb said.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
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Sure, that makes sense. All the world’s faltering Leftist welfare states should join up and go over the cliff together.
Uh oh, better get out quick Alberta. The EURO left is coming for whatever rights you have remaining.
The Holy Roman Empire of The Germanic Nation persists.
Carney of Canada thinks he’s European so sure he would want Canada to join the Dictatorship
Canada is in Europe?
News to me.
Wonderful !
Not only will what used to be “Canada” continue to have illegtiimate rule from the Ottawa-Regime, but we will be under the stupidity and tyranny of “Brussels” as well !
Only European countries can join , Greenland can’t it’s in North America ,LOL
Yes this is yet another reason for Alberta Separation.
The Eurelectric Power Summit 2026 (”Bringing Power to Life”) is taking place on 3–4 June 2026 in Helsinki, Finland (at Finlandia Hall). It is currently ongoing as of June 4.
[let me first summarize the goals and “focus areas” below in plain English: electrify everything, make electricity supply more secure [somehow], become more competitive by electrifying energy-intensive heavy industry [haha], increase global competitiveness by using LESS imported fossil fuels [uh huh], somehos “address” surging AI electricity consumption [rots of ruck], and finally, “decarbonize” while doing all of that [ROTFLOL!]
[IOW, these people are F-ing insane!]
Main Goals and Focus Areas of Eurelectric Power Summit 2026:
The summit convenes top policymakers, industry leaders, and experts to address Europe’s “energy trilemma” — balancing electrification, energy security, and competitiveness while advancing decarbonisation. It explores how the power sector can support Europe’s climate goals amid geopolitical tensions, rising electricity demand (e.g., from transport, industry, and data centres), variable renewables integration, and technological disruptions like AI.
Key themes include:Accelerating electrification across all sectors (industry, transport, buildings, etc.) to meet Europe’s climate objectives.
Energy security of supply in a changing geopolitical and climate landscape, including resilience against physical/cyber threats and extreme weather.
Enhancing Europe’s global competitiveness through innovative, low-cost, low-carbon energy solutions and reducing reliance on fossil fuel imports.
Mobilising investment and infrastructure needed for the transformation, including grid modernization and system flexibility.
Supporting Elements
Two major reports are being launched to inform policy and industry action:“Power Couples 2.0” (3 June) — Pathways for electrifying energy-intensive industries to boost competitiveness, sovereignty, and resilience.
Powering the AI revolution (4 June) — Addressing surging data centre demand while using AI to optimize grids and operations.
How can Alaska and Hawaii be states?
Join the Caliphate! Mad Moe made it so!
Once again to liberals “make Europe great again” deserves praise, “make America Great again” is racist and ignorant.
My general understanding the Davos/EU/banker plan is - we ALL become debt-wracked, hedonistic, atomized, culturally-divided, confused, controlled mainstream media-controlled countries - and when we all go over the cliff together, we don't know any different OR we can't do anything about it anyway.
That’s quite a wish list. How many trillions do they plan to spend on it?
Kinda like how Ukraine, Albania or Montenegro are in the "North Atlantic"
losers of a feather sink together?
Nice pickup.
Do you think Leo will crown Ursula von der Leyen?
First electrify ALL elites’ and officials’ air travel in the EU
then get back to us
That would be fun to watch, especially in Vienna.
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