Chastened Merkel faces pressure to embrace Macron on Europe
Angela Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure at the weekend to embrace ideas by French President Emmanuel Macron in a passionate appeal for closer European cooperation and push back in looming coalition talks against parties critical of them.
At a summit of EU leaders in Tallinn last week   Merkel  said  her  top priorities were to move forward on the creation of a single digital market and a common asylum policy in the EU.
Only after that   she  said  should the bloc tackle the controversial issue of euro zone reform.
âMacron has spelled out sacrifices. Now it is up to Germany. And above all it is up to  Merkel  to take the lead  to say what  she  wants.â
BERLIN (Reuters) -  [TGT]  faced pressure at the weekend to embrace ideas by French President Emmanuel Macron in a passionate appeal for closer European cooperation and push back in looming coalition talks against parties critical of them.
At a summit of EU leaders in Tallinn last week    [TGT] said   [TGT]   top priorities were to move forward on the creation of a single digital market and a common asylum policy in the EU.
Only after that    [TGT]   said  should the bloc tackle the controversial issue of euro zone reform.
âMacron has spelled out sacrifices. Now it is up to Germany. And above all it is up to  Merkel  to take the lead  to say what  she  wants.â