Adversity is wonderful for concentrating the mind, so Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming president of the European Commission, should be concentrating very hard just now.
Juncker faces two kinds of adversity: parochial and global. The global context will be painfully outlined in the coming days during the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: Islamic State is wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, and threatening to destabilise one of the EU’s most important neighbours, Turkey; the deadly Ebola virus is spreading across west Africa and cases are now showing up in mainland Europe and the United States; there …read more
Source: European Voice
