The European Commission's new President Jean-Claude Juncker chairs the first official meeting of the EU's executive body at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels November 5, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - A no-confidence motion in the EU's new chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker had no chance of success after the Eurosceptic lawmakers who brought it traded insults with the bigger parties in the European Parliament on Monday.
Backed by anti-EU groups including the UK Independence Party and France's National Front, the motion calls for Juncker to be removed, less than a month after taking office, because of his long tenure as prime minister of Luxembourg when the country was at the centre of controversial corporate tax avoidance schemes.
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