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Euractive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italy is refusing to give up its bid for the presidency of the Eurogroup and is challenging the informally announced re-appointment of Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to the job, EurActiv has learned. The battle could also involve the appointment of the new president of the European Central Bank.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Brussels - Finance ministers from the countries that use the euro late Tuesday elected Luxembourg Premier Jean-Claude Juncker to chair their informal meetings for the next two and a half years. The nomination cements Juncker's reputation as one of th...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund see the euro as being currently overvalued, Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting of the 16 countries that use the single currency, also attended by the IMF's Europe director Marek Belka, Juncker said there was agreement that the "euro is overvalued." He said it was particularly the case when...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Nanjing,China/Dubai - The decision of emirate-owned Dubai World to seek a moratorium on its debt is not expected to hit the eurozone, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said Sunday....
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France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
China's Premier Wen Jiabao kicked off a meeting with top EU finance officials Sunday in talks expected to focus on long-running rancour over the yuan currency's exchange rate. Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet and EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia were expected to renew calls for China to revalue the yuan during the talks....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
China's Premier Wen Jiabao kicked off a meeting with top EU finance officials Sunday in talks expected to focus on long-running rancour over the yuan currency's exchange rate. Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet and EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia were expected to renew calls for China to revalue the yuan during the talks....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
China's Premier Wen Jiabao was due to meet with top EU finance officials here Sunday in talks expected to focus on long-running rancor over the yuan currency's exchange rate. Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet and EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia were expected to renew calls for China to revalue the yuan.
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China Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
It is not only the US who want to see the RMB appreciate. Now the EU want in on the act. This pressure will have a limited impact. EU leaders step up pressure on renminbi [FT] China will come under renewed pressure this weekend to begin strengthening its currency when three of Europe’s most senior economic policymakers visit the country. Ten days after Barack Obama, US president, called for an...
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fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
When the Lisbon treaty comes into force on December 1st, the European Union will have achieved two of its key goals of the last decade -- improved coherance and a stronger common foreign policy. Among many other things, the Treaty brings major changes to two top posts in the EU, a permanent President of the European Council (rather than 6 month rotating among the heads of states/governments in the...
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European Union Law (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Jean Quatremer has done the unthinkable – he has lifted the sacred veil of secret deliberations for the nomination of the first President of the European Council. If his information is credible, then it appears that the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, has unilaterally opposed the candidacy of the prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker. All [...]
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The speaker of the German parliament, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, backs Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker for European Union president, a press report cited him as saying on Friday. "If the criteria for choosing the (EU's) first president are experience, reputation, competence and profile, then we don't need to look any further, because nobody meets these requirements more perfectly than...
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European Union Law (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Fondation Robert Schuman is giving you a unique opportunity – to choose the first President of the European Council! Naturally, your vote won’t be counted during the summit next week, but then – who knows? You can choose from Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Jean-Claude Juncker, Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy and Jan Peter Balkenende. [...]
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Tallinn - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the incumbent president of the small Baltic state of Estonia, became the latest name Thursday to enter the race for the job of European Council President. The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Tallinn: 'I put forward... the name of Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a candidate fit for the position of both president and high...
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NEWS AND PROPHECY (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Is the prophesied first beast of revelation emerging from its matrix? EU Summit to Choose President; Van Rompuy Is Favorite… (Update2) By Johan Carlstrom and Jonathan Stearns Bloomberg.com NEWS Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union will hold a summit on Nov. 19 to choose its first president and foreign minister, with Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and ex- Italian leader Massimo...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister, will be accompanied by Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, and Joaquín Almunia, the EU's economic affairs commissioner, to China