“A European Way of Life is putting together our main talents and energies, and included in that room is the fact that you have to respect the others, independently from their colour and independently from their initial home State. Knowing Margaritis [Schinas] well because I was in daily contact with him, I know that the title is not corresponding to his own values. And I think that this will have to be changed,” Juncker told Euronews.
Juncker’s comments come as president-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen came under intensifying pressure to drop the controversial title for the Greek Vice-president, after MEPs threatened to escalate the row in late-September hearings of Commissioners-designate in the European Parliament.
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