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Jean-Claude Juncker
Sign in to savePrime Minister of Luxembourg (1995-2013) and President of the European Commission (2014-2019)
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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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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