BERLIN Carlos Rodon White Sox Jersey , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Ambitious proposals for a reform of a European Union (EU) made by French President Emmanuel Macron have drawn mixed reactions from senior German politicians on Wednesday.
Angela Merkel's (CDU) official spokesperson Steffen Seibert told the press that the chancellor welcomed Macron's suggestions and shared his "principle finding" that the EU was in need of reform.
According to Seibert, the French president had delivered "a lot of material" which needed to be debated at an informal meeting of EU heads of state in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday. The chancellery's spokesperson refused to comment on the substance of Macron's speech, noting merely that the details still needed to be discussed.
Speaking at Sorbonne University on Wednesday, Macron called for a "profound transformation" of the EU. Among others he suggested more military cooperation James Shields White Sox Jersey , the establishment of a shared finance minister, budget and parliament for the Eurozone, the foundation of an EU-wide asylum agency, as well as new taxes on technology firms such as Facebook and Apple. In many regards, the proposals are far more ambitious than changes envisioned by Merkel.
Seibert stressed in Berlin that there could be no doubt about the "absolutely pro-European" outlook of the chancellor which she would retain in a new German government. He pointed to a recently-outlined joint German Avisail Garcia White Sox Jersey , French, Italian and Spanish initiative to create a new framework for taxation in the European digital economy.