“The European Union’s top official said she would work to make Canada the bloc’s first associate member, as traditional U.S. allies forge stronger ties in the face of tensions with the Trump administration,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Europe needed to tighten its cooperation with like-minded democracies, in particular Canada, to retain the continent’s sovereignty and tackle threats from what she called ‘an openly hostile world.'”Bloomberg: EU floats Canada becoming the bloc’s first “associate member.”