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Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker
(; born 9 December 1954) is a
Luxembourgish
politician who has been
President of the European Commission
, the executive branch of the
European Union
(EU), since 2014. Previously Juncker was
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
from 1995 to 2013, as well as
Minister for Finances
from 1989 to 2009. He was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU, and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, by the time he left office, his tenure encompassing the height of the
European financial and sovereign debt crisis
. From 2005 to 2013 Juncker served as the first permanent President of the
Eurogroup
.
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