Emmanuel Macron

The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have broken with previous statements by saying they would be prepared to look at changing EU treaties in order to allow a further integration of the Eurozone, according to the Guardian.

The European Union needs deep reforms, French President Emmanuel Macron said following his Berlin talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"We need a less bureaucratized Europe that would be able to better protect its citizens," Macron said. The French president pointed out that "without Europe, there will be no peace, prosperity and freedom."

France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron, the youngest leader of the country since Napoleon, is now in office after being sworn in with a solemn ceremony at the Elysee Palace on Sunday. Now people in France, Europe and elsewhere in the world are wondering: Will he succeed or will he not?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin, Monday, and the two agreed that reforms in the EU were necessary. The two leaders said they were open to the idea of changing some European treaties aimed primarily at reforming the operation of the Eurozone. Mrs.

Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron has named little-known parliamentarian Edouard Philippe from the rightwing Republicans party as his first prime minister, his office announced Monday.

Newly-inaugurated French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed a conservative prime minister in a move to broaden his political appeal and weaken his opponents before legislative elections in June.

The new French President Emmanuel Macron is set to name a prime minister, and to visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first full day in office as a president today, reported AFP.

On Sunday the centrist leader took power, and promised to restore France's shattered self-confidence and help rebuild European Union.

Not for the first time in recent years, Greece's fate is being decided outside of its borders. Representatives of the country's lenders, in the formation known as the Washington Group, met at the sidelines of the G7 summit in Bari, Italy, to discuss debt relief. The next milestone in this crucial discussion will be at the May 22 Eurogroup in Brussels.

The new French President Emmanuel Macron is going to visit Berlin in his first day after taking an oath, reported Dnevnik.

The aim of the visit is to point the connection between France and Germany, and to renew the European project, said one of his associates for Reuters.

Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated as France's youngest ever president on May 14, saying the country had chosen "hope" and that he would relaunch the flagging European Union.

Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, took the reins of power from François Hollande a week after he won a resounding victory over far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a tumultuous election.