Angela Merkel has dismissed the idea of helping Emmanuel Macron by relaxing eurozone spending rules, quickly putting the onus on France’s next president to implement economic reforms after his election win.
A day after Mr Macron scored a decisive victory in France’s presidential election, the German chancellor, the most powerful national leader in Europe, said she wanted to help France but said: “German support cannot replace French policymaking.”
The chancellor pledged to help France fight unemployment and improve its economy, and to co-operate closely with the youthful president-elect. “Emmanuel Macron carries the hopes of millions of French people and also of very many people in Germany and in the whole of Europe,” she said.
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