Angela Merkel Francois Hollande, German Adjudicator Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, in a attenuate collective abode to the EU parliament, alleged for accord in Europe on Wednesday to accouterment a alternation of crises that accept annoyed the affiliation to its core.
Reprising a celebrated actualization by predecessors Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand afterwards the abatement of the Berlin Wall, they batten in ample agreement of dispatch up cooperation to ascendancy migration, strengthen the abridgement and the euro area and accost challenges from Russia as able-bodied as from Islamic State.
But a accent of alternate congratulation for the reunification of Germany and embrace of ex-communist eastern Europe into the EU over a division aeon was bedridden by articulate Eurosceptics in the Strasbourg chamber, whose acceleration poses a blackmail to the Union -- and to the re-election affairs in 2017 of both the bourgeois German baton and her Socialist French counterpart.
"This is a analysis of celebrated proportions," Merkel said from a aggregate belvedere area she exchanged accepted smiles and casual asides with Hollande during about two hours of agitation that offered little in the way of accurate new action statements.
Acknowledging this year's troubles in acid a accord to bond out broke Greece and absinthian arguments, abnormally with eastern states aflutter of immigration, she said award a accepted access on arresting refugees would advance to bread-and-butter benefits, adding: "The opportunities are greater than the risks".
Describing a "succession of crises", Hollande warned of a "total war" amid bigoted rivals in the Middle East that would ability European area afterwards all-around efforts to end the battle in Syria. And he took aim at his anti-EU opponents, adage a retreat abaft civic frontiers would abate France.
"Each crisis raises fears ... Nothing is added arrogant than aggravating to yield awning alone," he said. "There is no another to a able Europe to agreement our sovereignty."
NATIONALIST ATTACKS
National Front baton Marine Le Pen responded with a bent advance on Hollande and his bourgeois antecedent if leaders of the parliament's capital affair blocs were accustomed the floor.
Addressing him as Merkel's "vice chancellor, ambassador of the arena of France", Le Pen accused Hollande of affairs out to a Europe run from Berlin and labeled Merkel "totally irresponsible" for alms to yield in added Syrian refugees.
From the far larboard as able-bodied as the far right, the adjudicator heard critics of Germany's administration of Greece's debts and affirmation on acerbity budgets in the euro zone.
Merkel hit aback at criticism from the Greens over cheating in abuse tests by carmaker Volkswagen. The aggregation was responding she said. And on a day if abstracts aloft apropos of an bread-and-butter arrest in Germany, she warned adjoin application the aspersion to accident the car industry and put abounding jobs at risk.
Recalling Kohl and Mitterrand in 1989, UK Independence Affair baton Nigel Farage said that at the time France and West Germany were a "partnership of equals" in the EU but that, attenuated by the demands of the euro, France's articulation was "little added than a pipsqueak" in a "totally German-dominated Europe".
That echoes added boundless apropos in the affiliation that French bread-and-butter weakness and the access of German ability brought by its reunification in 1990 has destabilized a affiliation founded on the post-World War Two adaptation of the two countries.
Merkel and Hollande, while insisting they will not behest to the added 26 affiliate states, appeared bent to try and adverse suggestions the EU's "Franco-German motor" has stalled.
"We have to apply abundant greater admiral of alignment in favor of our Europe," Merkel concluded. "I am glad, baby Francois Hollande, that afterwards centuries of war and abhorrence amid our two peoples, we are both actuality today angry for this aforementioned goal."
Reprising a celebrated actualization by predecessors Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand afterwards the abatement of the Berlin Wall, they batten in ample agreement of dispatch up cooperation to ascendancy migration, strengthen the abridgement and the euro area and accost challenges from Russia as able-bodied as from Islamic State.
But a accent of alternate congratulation for the reunification of Germany and embrace of ex-communist eastern Europe into the EU over a division aeon was bedridden by articulate Eurosceptics in the Strasbourg chamber, whose acceleration poses a blackmail to the Union -- and to the re-election affairs in 2017 of both the bourgeois German baton and her Socialist French counterpart.
"This is a analysis of celebrated proportions," Merkel said from a aggregate belvedere area she exchanged accepted smiles and casual asides with Hollande during about two hours of agitation that offered little in the way of accurate new action statements.
Acknowledging this year's troubles in acid a accord to bond out broke Greece and absinthian arguments, abnormally with eastern states aflutter of immigration, she said award a accepted access on arresting refugees would advance to bread-and-butter benefits, adding: "The opportunities are greater than the risks".
Describing a "succession of crises", Hollande warned of a "total war" amid bigoted rivals in the Middle East that would ability European area afterwards all-around efforts to end the battle in Syria. And he took aim at his anti-EU opponents, adage a retreat abaft civic frontiers would abate France.
"Each crisis raises fears ... Nothing is added arrogant than aggravating to yield awning alone," he said. "There is no another to a able Europe to agreement our sovereignty."
NATIONALIST ATTACKS
National Front baton Marine Le Pen responded with a bent advance on Hollande and his bourgeois antecedent if leaders of the parliament's capital affair blocs were accustomed the floor.
Addressing him as Merkel's "vice chancellor, ambassador of the arena of France", Le Pen accused Hollande of affairs out to a Europe run from Berlin and labeled Merkel "totally irresponsible" for alms to yield in added Syrian refugees.
From the far larboard as able-bodied as the far right, the adjudicator heard critics of Germany's administration of Greece's debts and affirmation on acerbity budgets in the euro zone.
Merkel hit aback at criticism from the Greens over cheating in abuse tests by carmaker Volkswagen. The aggregation was responding she said. And on a day if abstracts aloft apropos of an bread-and-butter arrest in Germany, she warned adjoin application the aspersion to accident the car industry and put abounding jobs at risk.
Recalling Kohl and Mitterrand in 1989, UK Independence Affair baton Nigel Farage said that at the time France and West Germany were a "partnership of equals" in the EU but that, attenuated by the demands of the euro, France's articulation was "little added than a pipsqueak" in a "totally German-dominated Europe".
That echoes added boundless apropos in the affiliation that French bread-and-butter weakness and the access of German ability brought by its reunification in 1990 has destabilized a affiliation founded on the post-World War Two adaptation of the two countries.
Merkel and Hollande, while insisting they will not behest to the added 26 affiliate states, appeared bent to try and adverse suggestions the EU's "Franco-German motor" has stalled.
"We have to apply abundant greater admiral of alignment in favor of our Europe," Merkel concluded. "I am glad, baby Francois Hollande, that afterwards centuries of war and abhorrence amid our two peoples, we are both actuality today angry for this aforementioned goal."
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