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Thursday, September 7, 2017

At democracy's birthplace, France's Macron dreams of EU 2.0

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Standing at a Greek site where democracy was conceived, French President Emmanuel Macron called on members of the European Union to reboot the 60-year-old bloc with sweeping political reforms or risk a "slow disintegration." Macron, on a visit Thursday to Athens, urged EU nations to carry out six-month national reviews on EU reforms before imposing them — signaling his distance with the German-backed approach based on fiscal discipline within the eurozone. "It would be a mistake to abandon the European ideal," Macron said. "We must rediscover the enthusiasm that the union was founded upon and change, not with technocrats and not with bureaucracy.


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