A European minimum wage, a unified social-security system and joint debt issuance are 'the wrong track', in a statement by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. merkel
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, leader of the Christian Democrat Union , poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview on day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
A European minimum wage, a unified social-security system and joint debt issuance are “the wrong track,” Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a Merkel protegee who leads the governing Christian Democratic Union, said in an op-ed for Welt am Sonntag.The response from Berlin to French President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping plans for strengthening the European Union is the latest sign that leaders of the EU’s two biggest powers differ in tone and substance on how to remedy the continent’s gloom.
“Our Europe must get stronger,” but the answer can’t simply be to transfer powers away from the national and local levels, the newspaper quoted Kramp-Karrenbauer as saying.
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