Jean-Claude Juncker

Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1995-2013) and President of the European Commission (2014-2019)

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Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourg politician who served as his country's Prime Minister for 18 years and then led the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, for five years. He matters because he held significant power in shaping both Luxembourg's domestic policies and major EU decisions affecting hundreds of millions of Europeans.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 2

Top works

L'autorité européenne du travail
Alois Mock

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Denmark
Active from: 2002

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners: 17
Total plays: 24

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,894x
Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,538x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,233x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,667x
Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,853x

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Quotes

“We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”
“I am determined, as is the Government, to do everything to preserve everything that we have worked for and that we believe in … by using all necessary means to fend off the hostile (bid).”
“The constitutional treaty was an easily understandable treaty. This is a simplified treaty which is very complicated."”
“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”
“Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates.”
“I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean-Claude Juncker (born 9 December 1954) is a Luxembourgish politician who was prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He was also Luxembourg's Finance Minister from 1989 to 2009 and President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013.

By the time Juncker left office as prime minister in 2013, 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. In 2005, he became the first permanent President of the Eurogroup.

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