Merkel Third Term Offers Vision to Keep Cameron’s U.K. in EU
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing a push to curtail the reach of European Union rulemakers, aligning her with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s fight to claw back powers.
“Regulation is being overstretched,” Michael Link, the European affairs minister from Merkel’s Free Democrat coalition partners, said in an Aug. 26 interview in Berlin. Germany wants to shift “the focus of the commission to fundamental policy areas such as energy and the internal market.”