FILE PHOTO: Germany's candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz talks to journalists after a news conference in Berlin, Germany June 27, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz called on Thursday for accelerated reforms to the euro zone, and the basis of a strengthened currency union to be agreed by the time Britain leaves the European Union in 2019.
In a speech in Paris, Schulz said he favoured an investment budget for the euro zone and a finance minister for the bloc with a mission to tackle tax competition and tax evasion.
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