Carney calls for closer ‘strategic autonomy’ and trade as Trump threatens EU over associate member offer – Europe live

In an address to European parliamentarians, the Canadian prime minister speaks about his hopes for what a new relationship with the EU could look like

Meanwhile, we are getting some interesting lines from Paris that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, convened the chiefs of the different political parties to discuss the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and their consequences on the energy market.

The meeting will be held on Friday morning at 10:30am local time on Thursday (that's 9:30am UK) and military and intelligence officers will share the information they have provided to Macron, his office said in a statement.