BERLIN: Less than two months after celebrating a new Franco-German treaty, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are diverging on the future of Europe ...
BERLIN: Less than two months after celebrating a new Franco-German treaty, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are diverging on the future of Europe in the run-up to European Parliament elections in May.
Merkel said that a single European seat was"a very good concept for the future" and would help"to gather the European voices" in the world body. But AKK, Merkel's hand-picked successor who hopes to contest the next German election for the Christian Democrats, also rejected some of Macron's positions, especially for a pooling of European debt and on harmonising policy on social welfare.
While Macron's Republic on the Move party will take a common front with the liberals, Merkel's CDU is campaigning with the conservative European People's Party. AKK had also disagreed with Macron's idea for a Europe-wide coordination on minimum salaries, arguing that the"Europeanisation of social services and the minimum wage would be the wrong way".
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