Cameron ready to force EU vote on Juncker
Monday, 23 June 2014
LONDON, June 22 (AFP): British Prime Minister David Cameron will force fellow EU leaders to vote on who should head the bloc's executive body if they try to impose Jean-Claude Juncker, Downing Street sources said Sunday.
Cameron, who views the former long-serving Luxembourg prime minister as a federalist who will not adopt the modernising reforms he says the European Union badly needs, has vowed to "fight this right to the very end".
London feels Juncker is an EU insider to the bone, who will not heed the backlash voters inflicted in last month's European Parliament elections, but instead press on regardless with Brussels business as usual.
European centre-left leaders meeting in Paris on Saturday backed Juncker-who is from the centre-right-and the row is set to dominate the two-day summit of all 28 EU leaders starting Thursday.