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Macron pushes for EU joint debt as bloc ahead of competitiveness

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on EU countries to launch a new joint borrowing initiative to finance strategic investments and challenge the dominance of the US dollar. The push, outlined in an interview with several European newspapers, including Le Monde, The Economist and Süddeutsche Zeitung, comes ahead of an EU leaders’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to tackle the bloc’s lagging competitiveness. [...]