French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday 11 October that the "political crisis" facing the European institutional level should not take hold, following the rejection by MEPs of the Commissioner-designate for the Internal Market, Sylvie Goulard (see EUROPE B12346A1).
"This is an extremely important and sensitive time. There is a new European Commission and a new European Parliament coming into being and facing a political crisis that we must not allow to take root and develop", said...