The Netherlands and Europeanization: Reading Analysis 5 (Why should (or shouldn’t) there be EU-level involvement in the OCTs — as opposed to simply relations between the OCTs and the relevant member state (the Netherlands, France, and Denmark)?

Samira Rafaela co-chairs (with French MEP Stéphane Bijoux) the European Parliament’s EU/OCT Friendship Group, for the Overseas Countries and Territories: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antartic Lands (TAAF), Greenland, New-Caledonia, Saba, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Wallis and Futuna.
This week marked the launch of the “Friends of the OCTs”:
https://www.overseas-association.eu/event/official-launch-of-the-friends-of-the-octs-group/
Why should (or shouldn’t) there be EU-level involvement in the OCTs — as opposed to simply relations between the OCTs and the relevant member state (the Netherlands, France, and Denmark)?
Note the OCTs bordering on Canada: Greenland and Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon

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