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German parties offer first response to France's Macron on Europe
Among other things, they support the idea of an "investment budget" for the single-currency bloc
Published Fri, Jan 12, 2018 · 09:50 PM
Berlin
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) pledged on Friday to work closely with France to strengthen the eurozone, in their first substantive response to President Emmanuel Macron's ambitious EU reform proposals.
In a 28-page policy document agreed after all-night talks be…
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