My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.
Jean-Claude JunckerAngela Merkel did the right thing. Her decision and the extraordinary willingness of the German people to take in refugees conveyed an image of Germany that is still having positive repercussions today. Unfortunately, people in Germany are no longer seeing that.
Jean-Claude JunckerThere is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.
Jean-Claude JunckerI'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.
Jean-Claude Juncker