STRASBOURG — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU is “not in a good place” and that it needed to move beyond “business as usual” to address the daunting political challenges facing the bloc.
“Now is not the time to go ahead willy-nilly, business-as-usual,” Juncker told members of the European Parliament and other EU leaders. “Please don’t feel that’s the case.”
In his first State of the European Union speech as head of the EU’s executive body, Juncker spelled out progress he had made in making the Commission more “political” but also criticized member states and political leaders for failing to …read more
Source: European Voice
