Jean-Claude Juncker

Europe10:33 GMT 03.06.2020(updated 17:01 GMT 03.06.2020) Get short URLOn 6 April 1994 a plane carrying Rwanda's President Juvenal Habyarimana - from the Hutu tribe - was shot down by a missile near the Rwandan capital Kigali. Hutu militias used it as an excuse to launch a genocide against the Tutsi…

Hungary is demanding an apology from Finnish MEPs, academic researchers and prominent media outlets for “wrongly” criticising and spreading “false” arguments concerning the country’s emergency law enacted in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, according to letters sent by the Hungarian embassy in Helsinki. The letters arrived in waves and…

Tim King writes POLITICO's Brussels Sketch. The genius of the European Commission’s potentially revolutionary recovery fund is that it is so conservative. What makes the proposals put forward by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen potentially transformative is their scale and speed. But in their form and structure, most of its…

Pioneer of European integration Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi thought Europe would be better off without Russia and Britain. A contemporary of his, Heinrich Mann, begged to differ. Now that Brexit is a fact, Coudenhove-Kalergi's vision has finally become reality.Heinrich Mann and his brother Thomas Mann were the most prominent German intellectuals of…

Well, in my case I can pinpoint exactly the coincidence that made me president of the European Council. In order to become president of the European Council you need to be or have been a head of state or government. I became a head by coincidence. Yves Leterme, then the…

By Christiane Hoffmann, Frank Hornig, Walter Mayr, Veit Medick, Peter Müller, Britta Sandberg and Helene ZuberFour video conferences. That is how many times German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron met without their European Union partners. They spoke English, and each of the conversations lasted for more than an hour. The subject was always…

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Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, "when radical extremists and anti-Semites use demonstrations to agitate and divide, then everyone should keep much more than 1.5 meters' distance." Follow DW for the latest. There are more than 5 million infections worldwide, according to the AFP news agency, with the Johns Hopkins University…

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Former EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spoke to DW about Europe's coronavirus response. He says unity behind a new economic stimulus package is vital, or else the union could face an "existential crisis." Jean-Claude Juncker has given his backing to a joint French and German plan to rescue EU economies after…