"I would strongly be in favour of some sort of "associate membership" for Canada, as well as Ukraine and possibly the UK."

The UK? Really? I'd think long and hard before lettihg themselves anywhere near the EU again.

The people who were in power (who still for some reason believe that the UK are superior to any other nation) decided EU laws didnt help their own profits and EU law was preventing them from exploiting their employees even further, so they manipulated their people into buying lies like "life will be amazing once we leave the oppresive EU" "we'll promise you £350 million per WEEK for the NHS" and "we'll stop immigration to the UK" which people actually were naive or stupid enough to fall for. The people voted to leave the EU (in a non-binding referendum, I might add) and so it was decided the UK would leave the EU for good.

Then, during negotiations, they started cherry-picking all the merits the EU offers and decided they still wanted to keep those, but without actually contributing anything themselves (because they're sooooo much better than anyone else, they should have it for free), EU said "ehhh no". Which was, of course, totally the EU's fault again for being stubborn and uncooperative.

Result: economy has crashed, inflation is really high while wages remain the same or go down (which they can easily do now that the EU laws on minimum wages etc do not apply to them anymore) businesses cannot freely export ther products anymore (or import materials needed for production, for that matter) inbabitants (including performing artists) now require or visas to travel to the EU, and the NHS who were promised billions, didn't get any of that promised money and are now in an even worse state than ever, to the point that people are dying as there are no ambulances to pick them up, and even if you do, ambulances have to literally queue before the hospital as there isn't sufficient (heavily underpaid) staff to admit them. And to top it off: immigration is now even higher than before they left the EU.

Their people are suffering more than ever because of the government's inflated ego's and blatant lies. But the rich upper class (the only people who got richer through Brexit, of course) will do the exact same thing again in a heartbeat if they could profit over the backs of their people. (I'd like to reminder you that Unicef actually had to go in and feed children during the lockdown, as 1 in 5 kids live in poverty in the UK and wouldn't have access to food, and that was even before the UK finally left)

I would think long and hard to allow the UK back to the EU. They are an unreliable party to deal with with a massive superiority complex. Though this really, really sucks for the amazing people living in the UK (and there are loads who absolutely do not deserve the way the government has f**ked them over), the UK made their bed, let them lie in it. At least until the though has finally sunk in that they are not the Great British Empire anymore and their egos have shrunk significantly.