Posted on 01/10/2018 4:50:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday urged Germany to plow more investments into major European projects and allow wages to rise, as part of Berlin’s contribution to boosting growth in Europe.
“France has taken on its European responsibilities, in reducing its public spending and reforming its economy. We expect Germany to join the movement, by adopting more offensive wage policies and investing more,” he told Die Zeit weekly at a time when Chancellor Angela Merkel is battling to form a new coalition government.
Le Maire’s call comes at a sensitive time for Merkel, as public spending is a hot-button issue in negotiations to forge a new alliance with the Social Democrats.
The center-left SPD is demanding more public spending to help the disadvantaged, but Merkel’s conservatives want to keep the country’s budget balanced as they argue that they are saving for the aging population’s future. …
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The old saying, everyone remembers where they buried the hatchet.
The USA has the civil war, Europe has far more than that...
Germany has already invested enough to install a puppet in France, what more does that minister want for France?
Merkel is the conservative? LOL.
Germany could save a pile of money by closing their borders and send a good portion of all the freeloaders home as most of them will never amount to anything and will continue to be a drain on the overall economy, just like they are in this country. Sorry to say..
Merkel is still trying to form a Government
Britain is now leaving, and the countries want others to pay more LOL. Good for Britain, and at least they have more common sense than the French, and Germans.
Who does he think he is....Clemenceau?
Satire right?
Are we looking at the beginning of yet another retelling of the tragedy of the commons?
Will the modern world survive the scale of it?
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