Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes


I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.


Citations

Juncker, Jean-Claude. "State of the Union Address 2015." European Commission, 9 Sept. 2015.

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Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Born: December 9, 1954
  • Nationality: Luxembourger
  • Profession: Politician

Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourgish politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013, as Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009, and as President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019.