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FRANCE and Germany’s foreign ministers demanded closer integration and more control from Brussels yesterday in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave.
France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault said that the British decision “could help Europeans become aware that Europe needs to come closer together.”
He and Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggested a common European prosecutor for terrorism and organised crime, an international coastguard and joint border-guard units.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
