Juncker in a sentence

At the end of this saga, the Council accepted Mr Juncker, but highlighted that it was his personality that made their acceptance possible (Juncker was a long-serving prime minister and familiar to the heads of governments on the Council).

He always said that he didn’t do anything without Juncker’s blessing, but he did have a chance to jump in that hole.

He urged Juncker to drop them," Mr De Rynck wrote.

At the commission, Dr. von der Leyen succeeded Jean-Claude Juncker, who was the public face of the European Union in its arduous negotiations with Britain since the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Instead of marrying Meghan, he should have married Jean-Claude Juncker to help ease Brexit, but no, just “me, me, me” with his glamorous American actress, wasn’t it?

This means that under the Juncker Commission no further progress could be expected on a dossier expected to take center stage at the European elections.

This year, Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of the European Commission, said it was critical not to send congratulations too soon.

Ursula von der Leyen, who replaced Jean-Claude Juncker in December, will meet at Downing Street on Wednesday – in a reversal of previous visits which have usually seen British prime ministers trek to Brussels for audiences.

After three days of tortuous negotiations, Germany’s defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, received the support of heads of state and government to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the commission in Brussels.

Angela Merkel and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

As of Sunday, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will be replaced by Germany's Ursula von der Leyen at the head of the EU executive, and Belgium's Charles Michel will succeed Donald Tusk as EU Council president and chair the summits of EU leaders.

At a summit days after the referendum Jean-Claude Juncker privately promised to 'make Brexit work' after Britain voted to leave, but warned that he would have to take a more hardline stance in public, Mr Cameron revealed.

Attendees include the G7 nations' heads of government plus the president of the European Commission (currently Jean-Claude Juncker, who will miss the Biarritz summit due to surgery) and the president of the European Council - presently Donald Tusk.

Boris Johnson and EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker, before the no-show press conference with Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.

Boris Johnson has told European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker that Britain will leave without a deal unless the backstop is "abolished".

Boris Johnson heads to Luxembourg for key Brexit talks with Juncker Boris Johnson has said he believes he can strike a Brexit deal in the next few weeks - as he prepares for his first face-to-face negotiations with EU chiefs.

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Michel Barnier, the EU's Chief Brexit Negotiator, October 17, 2019.

But the scale of the challenge Mrs May faces has been laid bare by news that Brexiteers dismissed a compromise suggestion at a meeting with Mr Juncker's chief aide yesterday.

During a phone call on Tuesday evening, the Prime Minister told Mr Juncker that nothing short of reopening negotiations and removing the Irish backstop would be good enough for his Government to consider signing an exit agreement.

Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas announced on Monday (9 September) that his country will make do with no representation in Jean-Claude Juncker’s outgoing Commission, which ends its mandate on 31 October.