Cameron casts doubt on ’federalist’ Juncker

With the EPP returned as the parliament’s largest party, it looks inevitable that Jean-Claude Juncker will become president of the European Commission, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

IT IS ironic that Britain may depend on “the Luxembourg compromise”, first deployed to allay the fears of a petulant French president De Gaulle, to allow them some cover in their vendetta against Jean-Claude Juncker.

David Cameron’s actions have elevated the former Luxembourg prime minister from that of a cynical response from the EU’s biggest political family, the European Peoples Party of which Fine Gael is a member, to the near inevitable next president of the European Commission.