U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron sharpened his attacks on Jean-Claude Juncker as unsuitable to run the European Commission, mounting a final push to convince fellow European Union leaders to halt the former Luxembourg premier's appointment.
"It's the wrong person," Cameron told reporters in Brussels today before the second day of an EU summit. "Jean-Claude Juncker has been at the heart of the project to increase the power of Brussels and reduce the power of nation states for his entire working life. He's not the right person to take this organization forward."
Leaders of the 28-nation bloc are scheduled to use a working lunch to discuss their pick to run the commission, the body that proposes and enforces EU-wide laws and monitors the single market. With traditional British allies from Germany to Sweden opting to back the Luxembourger, Cameron acknowledged he had failed to rally sufficient support for his stance to block Juncker's appointment to the top EU post.
"I know the odds are against me," Cameron said. "But it doesn't mean you change your mind."
U.K. opposition is stiffening to Juncker, who ran Luxembourg for almost 19 years and played a key role in handling the euro debt crisis. British newspapers including the Daily Telegraph today ran front page reports citing an unnamed "European diplomat" as saying that EU leaders had discussed concerns about Juncker's "drinking habits."
A press official at Juncker's office in Brussels declined to comment on the reports when reached today by phone.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Stearns in Brussels at jstearns2@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alan Crawford at acrawford6@bloomberg.net Patrick Henry
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