He was immediately promoted to Minister of Labour, then Minister of Finance, allegedly being groomed as the heir to the then-Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jacques Santer.
Juncker was first elected to Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies for the Christian Social People’s Party in 1984, and rose quickly through the ranks. Politically, Juncker belongs to the  Centre-Right, but he is nevertheless suspicious of blindly pursuing free market solutions and has been called “the most socialist Christian Democrat there is.†He grew up in a continent that was only just emerging from the wreckage of World War II, and his father – a steelworker and trade union activist – was forced into the Wehrmacht during the war.
We must talk about this Europe.â€īorn in 1954, Juncker is a firm believer in this Europe. Juncker was nominated by a vote of 382 to 245 over Michel Barnier, the current EU Commissioner for the Single Market.Īccepting the nomination in Dublin, Mr Juncker said he was “allergic†to the idea of divisions in the EU between Northern and Southern states, and he wanted to “build bridges create consensus in Europe.†He argued that the European Parliament elections were an opportunity to “talk about the real Europe again, the Europe that was crafted and imagined by those who, after the Second World War, came back from concentration camps and the battlefields, and created this political programme.
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The final candidate for EU Commission President in our profile series is the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, who was confirmed as the official nominee of the  Centre-Right European People’s Party (EPP) at their congress in Dublin over the weekend.
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