a rousing speech<\/a>\u00a0of 100 minutes at the Sorbonne, needed movement on his eurozone budget proposal from the German chancellor that he could sell at home.<\/p>\nMs. Merkel, in turn, needed support for fixing Europe\u2019s fractured asylum and migration policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Europe that we know is too slow, too weak, too ineffective,\u201d Mr. Macron said in September, before reeling off a list of ambitious proposals.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Mr. Macron did not get nearly as much as he hoped for. He had lobbied for a budget of hundreds of millions of euros to be overseen by a European finance minister. German officials, long suspicious of anything that smacks of a transfer union, agreed finally to the idea of a eurozone budget, but in the tens of millions of euros and overseen by the European Commission.<\/p>\n
But Germany did agree to a proposal to coordinate its corporate tax rate with France and to an overhaul of the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone\u2019s bailout fund, which would expand its mission and allow it to provide emergency loans to countries in recession.<\/p>\n
On balance, Mr. Macron probably got a little more than he had expected, given Ms. Merkel\u2019s current political predicament.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe domestic pressure Chancellor Merkel is currently under makes it easier for the French President to get more money for the new budget,\u201d said Thomas J\u00e4ger, a professor at the University of Cologne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\n
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If she is unable to reach agreements with other European countries within about two weeks, her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, has threatened to act unilaterally, turning back any migrant to Bavaria whose asylum process is pending in another European Union country.<\/p>\n
Under these circumstances, analysts said, the leaders\u2019 joint declaration, which also covered support for closer military cooperation and foreign policy, was more substantive than might have been expected.<\/p>\n
The agreement \u201cis an important step in the right direction,\u201d said Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, though he added that it would not be sufficient to make the eurozone sustainable and to avoid future crises.<\/p>\n
Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford University concurred. \u201cIn time-honored fashion they will try to cobble something together that looks like a major joint initiative,\u201d he said. \u201cThe question is: Is it enough for Europe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot yet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On migration, the current crisis appears to have focused minds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe topic that worries us all at the moment is migration,\u201d Ms. Merkel said, standing beside Mr. Macron at a lengthy joint news conference after their meeting.<\/p>\n
Both Ms. Merkel and Mr. Macron hope to fashion deals with the front-line countries receiving the most migrants, like Italy or Spain, similar to one reached with Turkey.<\/p>\n
They also want to create a larger and more efficient European border force, adding 10,000 officers, and hope to discuss ways of processing asylum claims in North Africa, notably Libya, before migrants can arrive in Europe. Once migrants are on the Continent, it has proved very difficult to send back those who do not qualify as refugees, especially since many destroy their documents at sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Following a tumultuous few days, with President Trump joining the fray in Europe by firing off hostile tweets and banding together with nativists from Hungary to Slovenia, Ms. Merkel\u2019s meeting with Mr. Macron felt at times like a defiant counter summit \u2014 an attempt by Europe\u2019s two main centrist leaders to close ranks.<\/p>\n
Mr. Macron, who has emerged as Europe\u2019s most energetic leader, has made an urgent case for a liberal Europe. On Tuesday his government\u2019s spokesman responded sharply to President Trump\u2019s tweets by criticizing American policies toward migrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Donald Trump\u2019s policy of separating migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico from their children shows that the United States and Europe do not share the same \u2018model of civilization,\u2019\u201d said the spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want what\u2019s happening in the United States to happen in Europe,\u201d he told France 2 television, adding that \u201cclearly we do not share certain values.\u201d<\/p>\n
The main responsibility of this generation, he said, \u201cis to defend European solidarity against populism, against all forms of populism, the far left and the far right.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf everyone retreats behind their national borders, we won\u2019t succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The question is how much support Mr. Macron and Ms. Merkel command elsewhere in Europe for their proposed reforms of the eurozone and migration. Some nations, including Austria and the Netherlands, do not favor a separate eurozone budget, while Italy, with a new populist government, has vowed to get tough on migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that sense,\u201d Mr. J\u00e4ger said, \u201cthis compromise will be a litmus test of whether the French-German engine can still pull the European train.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Katrin Bennhold reported from Berlin and Steven Erlanger from Brussels. Melissa Eddy contributed reporting from Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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