
“Pushing her message of the need for greater fiscal discipline, structural reform and strengthened competitiveness, she said: ‘All of us have to jointly become better, and for that we need European unity.’ Merkel, who faces elections on September 22 in Europe’s biggest economy, has long championed fiscal discipline that has forced painful spending cuts in countries such as Greece and Spain. More recently she has focussed on the need to help the victims of the crisis, almost six million jobless under-25-year-olds, and repeatedly said that ‘Germany will only do well if Europe does well’.”
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