Jalima
" The most worrying part of this, for me, is not that this is the EU suggesting this, it is that it is the leaders of France and Germany putting this forward.
They are not the EU but these two alone are seeing themselves increasingly as the leaders of Europe."
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It has been the EU ' calling for this ' !
Macron and Merkel are merely ratcheting up what has been on the cards for ages.
As for Macron and Merkel if they say jump the other members jump ,. When they have both left office , which may be sooner rather than later, it will be whom ever takes their place as Germany and France belong to the dominant party in the European Parliament.