Article source
Financial Times
Article date
Tue, Sep 26, 2017
Emmanuel Macron made an impassioned appeal to EU leaders to be “bold” against the threat of populism as he presented a cascade of initiatives to overhaul the bloc in the most integrationist speech by a French leader since the creation of the euro.
Among the French president’s numerous proposals were the creation of a “military intervention force” and a common military budget by 2020, a European agency to deal with counter-terrorism intelligence and another to drive “radical innovation” in the economy.