2014 joined Jean-Claude Juncker to the top of the “EU-Commission of the last Chance”. He wanted to lead the citizens closer to Europe. Then the Brexit was to control and suffering the theme of his term of office.
flashback. The fall of 2014 . “How are you?”, asks to go to a British member of the European Parliament in the past. “I am surviving” (“I survive”), so self-ironic yet so accurate response from the President of the European Commission.
Physically fragile, frequently visible and with a mixture of shock, ready Humor and a strong melancholy Jean-Claude goes to meet Juncker at the end of his term in office. The 5-year-old Brussels Era of Commission President Juncker by a word that he would have heard himself to the loved one never, and the Juncker in his speech before the European Parliament only with angewidertem undertone pronounce: “Brexit”.
Brexit for Juncker long inexpressibly
The British Brexit vote ached Jean-Claude Juncker, almost physically.
The decision of the United Kingdom from the European Union to get out, is for the convinced Europeans Juncker, the deepest political disappointment of his life. The word went out shortly after the Referendum the British in June of 2016, not even on Juncker’s lips.
Today, the President of the Commission emphasized in almost every one of his Speeches, not matter-of-factly, that the EU and its Commission to add to the decision of the British to leave the European Union, and of course respected – without, we deeply regret this decision. But at the time, immediately after the British Referendum, was not the President of the Commission of the mentally able to bring the British to the EU, on the lips. By a “unique Situation,” said Juncker in June 2016, immediately after the Brexit Referendum – and by “this decision.” Juncker was not only very sad about the cancellation of the majority of the referendum participants to the EU. Him Leaving hurt almost physically.
Personal defeat
Jean-Claude Juncker feels the Brexit Referendum of the British, as his personal defeat. Systematically, the Initiator of the Brexit had made the referendum, the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron, the mood against Juncker. Until recently, Cameron had tried to prevent the luxembourger as President of the European Commission. Cameron and many EU-sceptic Tory politicians caricatured Juncker as the propagandists of an ever more powerful, octopus be liable to the Brussels bureaucracy monster called EU.
The then-British Prime Minister David Cameron was regarded as a personal intimate enemy Junckers.
“Mr. Euro,” Juncker, Cameron and many Tory politicians in the EU, called the Parliament. And that was not quite meant as a compliment. Because of the community currency, the Euro, the UK never wanted to have something to do. And with the political community in the EU project actually, but only with the profitable internal market.
a Clear Position against British raisin Pickerei
However, if you leave the European Union, you are not more part of the European single market, has made Juncker the British very clear. Someone, of leaving the European Union could not remain in the same privileged Position as the EU member States.
This is actually a matter of course, but not for the British. This was Juncker’s clear from the outset. Because the United Kingdom had considered the EU as a kind of desire concert. The so-called raisin-Pickerei pushed to the extreme. The Euro London granted a cancellation of the Schengen agreement on open internal borders, the British joined in. They refused even the Charter of fundamental rights of the EU to sign and profit since 1984, from the so-called British rebate in a total height from 128 billion euros.
the President of The Commission knew that London would try to remain even after the exit from the EU in the highly profitable domestic market. But the inextricable related to the free movement of workers block. “Not with me”, indicated the President of the Commission from the outset. He knew at this point, the German Chancellor fully on his line.
unification of the fractious EU Brexit negotiations
It is perhaps the greatest merit in Juncker’s term in office that he has otherwise so bleak, arguing about the EU in Brexit negotiations, United – together with his Brexit chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and the Brussels special peaks of maximum influence Angela Merkel.
EU Commission President Juncker, and the EU-a Brexit-chief negotiator Barnier, the EU occurred in the negotiations with the United Kingdom United.
“This is a historically unprecedented Situation.” This statement is not a twists and turns only Juncker’s Favorite. It is also the title of his presidency. The British are trying to leave the EU, the Greek exit from the Euro threatened at times. But Juncker manages to tame the centrifugal forces. Greece was rescued from impending bankruptcy. And two years after the application for divorce, the British are still in the EU.
EU in fragile Constitution
white Juncker: The EU’s Situation is highly fragile. US President, Donald Trump threatens to impose punitive tariffs on European cars. The refugee distribution within the EU remains a fiction, the greater the protection of the external borders.
Illiberal Democrats in Hungary and Poland the sound. Italy’s Minister of the interior, Salvini wants to use the upcoming European elections, in order to bring together the AfD, the right of EU opponents in the new European Parliament is in a position – and maybe also in the future EU-Commission.
took office in 2014 with “the Commission of the last Chance”
to As “the Commission of the last Chance” referred to the passionate Pro-Europeans Juncker and his Team. The last Chance the citizens closer to Europe and to prevent a relapse into nationalism. It is not without a certain irony that, of all things, Juncker’s political opponents, namely the British opponents of the EU, with its Comedy-tires Brexit-the amateurism, the outgoing President of the European Commission and the European Union project almost glossy look.
A better helper-to-will as the Brexit-the British would have been able to Juncker is not your choice. He referred to his political arch enemy of Cameron – the Initiator of the Brexit referendum – as the greatest destroyer of modern history. The fact is that The British have made Juncker for Commission President, the EU’s recent history.
Juncker, no second term, 11.02.2017 Atlas |Belgium |Brussels
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