The EU risks breaking up unless it overhauls a controversial rule allowing firms to send temporary workers from low-wage countries to richer nations without paying their local social charges, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.

"Some political or business circles seek to use the EU's funds while at the same time developing a system of social and fiscal dumping," he said in Bucharest during a whistle-stop visit to eastern and central Europe.

"This will lead to the dismantling of the European Union" if there is no reform agreement at a Brussels summit in October, said Macron.

Source: AFP