ECR critical of Macron’s EU speech

The European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) in the European Parliament has criticised French President Emmanuel Macron’s “grand” vision for the European Union reform – as he outlined during a speech at the Sorbonne university in Paris on September 26.

“At the beginning of the next decade, Europe should thus be equipped with a common intervention force, a common defence budget, and with a common doctrine to act,” said Macron.

ECR co-chairs Ryszard Legutko and Syed Kamall both expr...