BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister has urged Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives to adopt a less rigid stance in fiscal policy towards France's next president, Emmanuel Macron.
"We must stop confronting the French constantly with the raised index finger, blocking everything and letting them beg, so to speak, for every inch of flexibility in politics," Sigmar Gabriel, a leading member of the centre-left Social Democrats, told ARD broadcaster on Sunday.
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