Candidates to be next European Commission president, former Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and European Parliament President Martin Schulz (L), pose before a TV debate in Brussels April 9, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
PARIS (Reuters) - The top two rival candidates to lead the European Commission struggled on Wednesday to find real policy differences in the first live television debate ahead of European Parliament elections next month.
Centre-right Jean-Claude Juncker and Social Democrat Martin Schulz - whose native languages are Luxembourgish and German - argued politely in French over the appropriate balance between budget austerity and investment to promote economic growth in a 50-minute debate on France 24 television.
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