Jean-Claude Juncker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jean-Claude Juncker

Luxembourgian politician

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1954

Place of Birth: Redange, Diekirch District, Luxembourg

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Luxembourg

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Jean-Claude Juncker

  • Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourgish: [??~?klo?t 'ju?k?]; born 9 December 1954) is a Luxembourg politician, who served as President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019 and as the 23rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013.
  • He was also the Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009. By the time Juncker left office, he was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, with his tenure encompassing the height of the European financial and sovereign debt crisis.
  • From 2005 to 2013, he served as the first permanent President of the Eurogroup.In 2014, the European People's Party (EPP) had Juncker as its lead candidate, or Spitzenkandidat, for the presidency of the Commission in the 2014 elections.
  • This marked the first time that the Spitzenkandidat process was employed.
  • Juncker is the first president to have campaigned as a candidate for the position prior to the election, a process introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon.
  • The EPP won 220 out of 751 seats in the Parliament.
  • On 27 June 2014, the European Council officially nominated Juncker for the position, and the European Parliament elected him on 15 July 2014 with 422 votes out of the 729 cast.
  • He succeeded JosĂ© Manuel Barroso as President on 1 November 2014.Juncker has stated that his priorities would be the creation of a digital single market, the development of an EU Energy Union, the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade Agreement, the continued reform of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union—with the social dimension in mind—and a "targeted fiscal capacity" for the Eurozone and the 2015-16 British EU membership renegotiations.

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