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The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 9
Former Prime Minister Of Luxembourg
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