PARIS/MUNICH –
UPDATE 16.07 hours – France and Germany will “speak with one voice and to work hand-in-hand.” That said the new French president, Emmanuel Macron on arrival for his first EU summit Thursday in Brussels, where the recovery of the German-French cooperation for a stronger Europe call of the day.
Earlier he said in a interview with a number of European newspapers: “I hope that we (Germany and France) return to the spirit of cooperation that we knew of in the time of François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl.” Berlin and Paris have a new alliance of forging trust, said Macron. “We are committed to the European project to protect.”
Macron called on his colleagues in Brussels to rally behind a plan to allow foreign investment in strategic industries to screen. He gave no examples, but it can, for example, national telecom or energy companies.
The president said indeed for free trade, but restrictions on investment in certain sectors are, according to him, necessary because “others the rules do not respect it.” Countries such as China, such investments, for example, are not, or hardly, while Europe is a reciprocal desire.
The expectation is that the leaders of the European Commission in order to explore how such a screening can look like.