Jean-Claude Juncker

World Review | Endtime Magazine Sept/Oct 2014

by Ginger Boerkircher

The European Parliament has elected former Luxembourg Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, as the new leader of the 28-nation bloc’s executive arm. Lawmakers in Strasbourg voted 422-250 for the 59-year-old who will take over as European Commission President, in November, from the incumbent, Jose Manuel Barroso of Portugal. The powerful Brussels-based Commission is in charge of drafting EU legislation, overseeing countries’ budgets, policing the EU free trade area and enforcing antitrust action.