About Jean-Claude Juncker
  • The ex-Prime Minister of Luxembourg has held the highest position in the executive branch of the European Union since 2014.
  • Juncker has an onerous task of restoring faith in the union in the face of Brexit and a growing anti-EU sentiment in countries across the continent.
  • While he considers Brexit to be a catastrophe, Juncker has expressed open doors for the United Kingdom if it ever wants to join again.
  • His most important job as President of the Commission is to determine the policy agenda and to represent the Commission in G7 and G20 meetings.

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Juncker has called national borders 'the worst invention ever made by politicians' and in May 2018 the gave a speech at an event commemorating Karl Marx.

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