Juncker’s Make-or-Break Presidency
It is possible that Jean-Claude Juncker, once he is confirmed as European Commission President, will confound his critics and become the radical reformer that the EU needs and public opinion wants. Pro-Europeans should hope so, because the next few years look like a make-or-break period for the entire integration project.
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BRUSSELS – Some say that political theater, not policies, drives democracies, and that’s certainly true of the drama – with comic overtones – that has been playing out in the European Union. The European Parliament elections in late May highlighted the “big picture” of the EU’s accelerating unpopularity; yet that warning was quickly eclipsed by the much smaller question of who should head the EU’s executive, the European Commission.