French President Emmanuel Macron, elected in May on a pro-EU platform, said he wanted to strengthen Europe‘s single currency union in light of Brexit and pledged to announce proposals after Germany‘s election on Sept. 24.

„This is a revamp that we need,“ he told an annual assembly of French ambassadors in Paris, promising „concrete steps in around 10 areas“ and adding that the EU could not afford to „get stuck in routine or technocratic quarrels“.