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The French President urged “new ambition” or the Brussels bloc would face the “dismantling of Europe”.

It comes after European Commission President Mr Juncker’s State of the Union speech which included his masterplan for greater integration without treaty change.

But speaking at a Bloomberg event in New York, Mr Macron warned of difficult months and years ahead for the bloc if it could not shake its image of overbearing bureaucracy.

He said: “We have to fix 10 years’ objectives for Europe and we have to decide some convergences and some investment decisions in order to reach these objectives.