Addressing German entrepreneurs in Berlin on Friday 8 June, the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, reiterated France's ambition of giving the Eurozone its own budget. Work on a Franco-German roadmap on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), to be submitted at the end of the month, continues.
Le Maire's comments echo the interview given by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, to Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung last Sunday, in which she set out her vision of the future of the EMU...