German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron call in a joint comment on the.„Financial times“ to make serious efforts to improve the competitiveness of the European Union, BTA reported.
According to Scholz and Macron, the necessary reforms include additional efforts to decarbonize the economy, and the specific means of achieving this goal should be left to the member states.
In addition, the two leaders call on EU countries to complete the construction of the single financial market by introducing common frameworks for insolvency, taxation and investment.
„We cannot take for granted the foundations on which we have built our European way of life and our role in the world,”, they write in their article, which will appear in tomorrow's edition of the newspaper and which the Reuters agency guarantees access in advance.
Today, during a visit to Dresden, Emmanuel Macron said that Europe is at a crossroads and called for a strong and sovereign European Union.
„Europe is a story of peace, prosperity and democracy,” he said, but warned that inaction could jeopardize all that.
The French leader pointed out that in the context of the war in Ukraine, Europe must formulate its own security and defense policy.
Macron noted that Europe should also be more independent economically, in the context of competition from China and the United States.