During their televised debate last Sunday, the three main candidates for Angela Merkel's succession did not say a word about Europe.
However, the elections of September 26 will largely determine the future of the Union.
Emmanuel Macron knows it well, who received at the Élysée two of the three contenders for the head of this essential ally, where 30% of European GDP is made.
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"The three candidates are very pro-European, with different visions",
explains Ludovic Subran, chief economist of the Munich insurer Allianz.
The Greens want to be the most ambitious in this area.
Their candidate Annalena Baerbock is for a deepening of the European budget and the perpetuation of the mutualised recovery fund of 750 billion euros of the Twenty-Seven, adopted last year, for the benefit of the climate transition.
Armin Laschet, Merkel's successor at the CDU, if he is in favor of the pursuit of European integration, advocates a return to budgetary rigor and rejects any idea
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