(ANSA) - Berlin, May 30 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
backed Jean-Claude Juncker as next European Commission (EC)
president, speaking on Friday in Regensburg, Germany.
"Jean-Claude Juncker has to become president of the
European Commission", said Merkel. "For this objective, I am
conducting all meetings now."
Juncker, former longstanding Prime Minister of Luxembourg,
is the European People's Party candidate for EC president.
The German Chancellor spoke on German Catholic Day 2014, an
annual gathering to discuss contemporary political and social
challenges for faith in the world.
Merkel says Juncker must become EC president
German chancellor lobbying for former Luxembourg PM