Macron Uses Rome Summit to Advance His Integration Agenda
- Seven ‘Club Med’ nations endorse a European banking union
- French president issues challenge: ‘convince our partners’
Emmanuel Macron speaks at Villa Madama in Rome on Jan. 10.
Photographer: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron, pressing his ambitious drive for reform of the European Union, said he and six fellow leaders at a summit of the bloc’s southern members agreed to seek “a veritable budgetary union.”
Macron, who recently turned 40, was in an upbeat mood at a gathering Wednesday evening with heads of state and government from the so-called Club Med at a Renaissance villa in Rome.