European Parliament President Martin Schulz speaks during a pre-election congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in Rome March 1, 2014. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
BERLIN (Reuters) - One of Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief allies in parliament on Wednesday criticised the centre-left candidate for European Commission president, Germany's Martin Schulz, for saying France should get more time to cut its public deficit.
Schulz, the European Parliament president from the Social Democrats (SPD), has said he would back a renegotiation of France's 2015 deadline for bringing its deficit in line with an EU limit of 3 percent.
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