“As Europeans, and first and foremost as Franco-Germans, we need to be bolder and make far more joint public investments”, declared French President Emmanuel Macron in a speech on European youth delivered in Dresden early on Monday evening, 27 May, on the occasion of his state visit to Germany.
He said that this massive increase in investment will require a drastic increase in the European budget. “Let’s double our European budget, either through the size of the budget, or through...