German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the European Commission more power, the most obvious sign, but she controlled her ambition to create a "fiscal union", in which the euro area member states to give up control of their budgets to Brussels station out against it.
Der Spiegel interview, comments made to day Houmokeer held talks with President Francois Hollande unveiled in Paris on joint proposals for the future shape of the euro area, including the creation of a permanent forum Eurogroup chairman Minister of Finance.
Merkel spoke strongly in favor of closer fiscal integration last year, but the French and some other euro-zone member states to cede sovereignty, there is a deep suspicion - which requires politically sensitive steps to modify the EU treaties - Berlin seems to have realized This resistance is too great, and now need to be overcome.
Merkel may be imminent German elections in September, and a new anti-euro political party threatened to eat into her support of the conservative camp will also adjust her message voters at home, many people are reluctant to cede national authority.
Merkel said: "I do not see any need in the coming years, to give more powers to the Commission in Brussels," in an interview with reporters said, adding that she and Hollande in the EU member states, the United States agreed in the economy cooperation on the issue.
"We are thinking about labor and pension market, and tax and social policies, such as economic policy coordination in Europe is too weak to be strengthened and given more power in Brussels which is quite different," she said. "
Broader compromise
Most of last year, the euro zone debt crisis raged, Merkel repeatedly talked about the need to move towards fiscal and political union in Europe to end the unrest.
In October, for example, she said in a speech in the German Bundestag lower house of parliament that European governments need to strengthen fiscal discipline, "the rights of the European real intervention in the national budget," go "one step."
She also expressed support for the time, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's proposal to create a super-right European currency commissioner.
The move away from this view reflects both a relaxed crisis response actions by the European Central Bank and Germany insist on promoting structural reform focus from deficit reduction eurozone stragglers changes.
It may also be a broader compromise and Paris, Germany push down an intergovernmental approach to integration, France has long been part of the Alliance support in favor of federalism.
In exchange, Hollande Berlin may have received assurances that he will be the French weak economic reforms, such as aligning it more closely with the German pension and labor market policy forward.
Merkel in her press conference clearly stated and Hollande said last week that France must provide the reforms provided by the European Commission, granted in exchange for two extra years of playing in Paris deficit reduction targets.
Hollande has angered officials in Germany and Brussels, initially hinted that the committee has no right to "control" in Paris. German believes that strengthening the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact "has been granted the right committees.
"The Prime Minister made it clear that Hollande in Paris obligation in accordance with the Committee's recommendations," a German official told Reuters reporter Shang Zhouri.
"We believe that he understands what reforms need to be implemented, but he needs to convince enough has been done under the false impression that the domestic audience."
In "magazine interview, Merkel also poured cold water on the European Commission within the EU direct election of the president of the voting idea, she and other members of the government, including Schaeuble, expressed support for the idea in in the past, but she told the magazine, such a step could undermine a balanced camp.
Sketched out by a joint proposal by Germany and France last week, is expected to be in the EU summit in late June between the center of discussion.
 



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