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It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

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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The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.
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I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.
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The good thing about the European Union is that the joint project ultimately benefits all Member States and not just a few.
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My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.
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It's important to recognize that we in Europe will either succeed together or fail together.
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I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.
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We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.
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The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
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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.
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Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.
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In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.
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Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.
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I have a plan. It entails leading to a fair deal and relationship with the British. We will be reasonable, but we will also negotiate firmly and without gullibility. I believe we must come to an agreement for the people of Britain and the people on the Continent, but not under exclusively British terms.
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God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
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I haven't yet given everything: I am still full of energy. But I wanted to make it clear that I don't have to make unwarranted concessions to national governments or to parliament. I want to avoid the impression that I am doing things just to ensure that I am re-elected. That's not the case. I have had my career.
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I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.
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Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.
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The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.
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Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.
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In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .
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