Europe Pub (PieFed)Canada, EU sign first-of-its-kind agreement for mutual recognition of architects, making it easier for architects to work on either side of the Atlantic
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Here is the Canadian government’s release.
The EU and Canada have concluded a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) on the recognition of professional qualifications of architects. The MRA became binding on 18 December 2025 and is now in force. The MRA allows EU architects to obtain a Canadian architect’s license. It also allows Canadian architects to obtain a license in an EU Member State. To do so, they must meet certain qualification and experience-based criteria.
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More harmonization of regulations with the EU please. Trying to keep ourselves in lockstep with the US regulatory framework has been holding us back for so long (and that’s the way the US likes it).
We love you guys, you are just like us, we would get along great. At least us Scandinavians. We’re polite and like hockey too. And we are just normal. Not like your neighbor.
This is huge news. Maybe Engineers and Geoscientists will have recognition treaties in a couple years too. Though some professional bodies might put up a fuss over it.
Next up are Marine Biologists!
I want Canada in the EU. Also Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and… Greenland. And Iceland. All the normal countries should come to us.
Edit: Uruguay can come too.
This needs to become comprehensive. Engineers, medical professionals, tradespeople.
World peace is solved.
Now do auto techs.
Art Vandelay is listening:
Beauticians next. And then arborists.
so did they take on European or american projection on CAD drawings?
I think modern architects need to be investigated and subjected to a public trial to justify why new homes and buildings look the way they do.