New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- NEW YORK - Canada wants Brussels closer, not Canada inside Brussels. Foreign Minister Anita Anand made that distinction explicit on Friday, days after the European Commission floated language that made it sound like more than that.

"Canada is not looking to become a full member of the European Union, and we're not attaching nomenclature or particular labels to the relationship at this point," Anand said at a joint press conference with her German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, when pressed to explain the "associate member" status European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had floated in her State of the Union address at the European Parliament the previous week. Von der Leyen had described plans to move Cana...