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Germany will play a strong and active role in the EU because the challenges facing us are great and we can only meet them together. This was stated by Federal Chancellor Friedrich Mertz on Friday after meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Layen in Brussels.
Mertz said that Berlin will actively engage in the simplification of European legislation, offering the European Commission directives to be canceled, and will repair his laws himself to remove them from them.
Earlier, the Federal Chancellor announced that it would resume a 60 -year opportunity and open a foreign policy office to its party – the Christian Democratic Union to support it in this activity.
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Mertz said the most important question currently standing in front of Europe is to strengthen the capacity of the European industry and that Germany will support and make proposals to the European Commission to reduce bureaucracy.
| « We need modernization and a better Business framework in the EU, » he said, adding that he is the first German chancellor to be in Brussels on his third day. |
Speaking of precedents, Mertz reminded that on the first day after his election he was in France and in Poland, explaining that his visits should be interpreted as a desire to « work not only with our largest partner in the West, but also with the largest country in Eastern Europe. »
The German Chancellor spoke to increase trade cooperation with third countries, declaring a rapid ratification of the Mercosur countries, against which France was declared for fears that Latin America agricultural products would worsen European farmers.
He was adamant that European countries should not try to negotiate individually with the United States, but leave the EU trade negotiations and talks to reduce duties imposed by President Donald Trump.
| « We hope for progress to reduce duties and further for a true trade agreement, which we are missing a lot now, » Mertz said, adding that Germany will insist on zero duties with the US and for mutual recognition of technical standards. |
He stated that border checks were legal and temporary, but did not say when they could be expected to be removed, and the information given by Urlsula von der Layen was exceeded, that illegal EU entries had decreased by 30% since the beginning of the year.
The previous German government had stated the intention of retaining the checks until the new migration pact came into force in the middle of next year.
