Battle over Juncker underlines EU parliament's 'adulthood'


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  • Monday, 23 Jun 2014

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister Chancellery in Warsaw June 16, 2014. REUTERS/Adam Stepien/Agencja Gazeta

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In early May, before the saga over whether Jean-Claude Juncker should become the next president of the European Commission had reached this week's slow-building climax, a pointed question was posed at a briefing in Brussels.

Had it been left up to European Union leaders alone to come up with a Commission candidate, a senior EU official was asked, would Juncker naturally have come top of the list?

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