German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a renewed call for reforms of the European Union, to enable the admission of new members, during a conference of European social democrats on Saturday. Scholz also said the principle that requires unanimity for decisions in foreign policy and tax policy should be gradually phased out, though he acknowledged this would take some persuasion. “But I also say clearly: if a geopolitical Europe is our aspiration, then majority decisions are a gain and not a loss of sovereignty,” Scholz told delegates at the Congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The EU…