European Union leaders are holding crisis talks over dinner in Brussels tonight on the future political direction of Europe after stunning victories by populist parties on the far-Right and Left in elections.
"Europe cannot shrug off these results," said the Prime Minister.
Mr Cameron will argue that appointing one of the last senior politicians to advocate a federal European state to the top EU job is a serious mistake following the surge of Eurosceptic and far-Right at European elections.
"We need an approach that recognises that Brussels has got too big, too bossy, too interfering. We need more for nation states,ﾔ said the Prime Minister." "It should be nation states wherever possible and Europe only where necessary. Of course we need people running these organisations that really understand that and can build a Europe that is about openness, competitiveness and flexibility not about the past."
Mr Juncker, 59, was the last serving European leader who believes that the EU should be transformed into a federal United States of Europe and if appointed would be an active commission president modelled on Jacques Delors.
"There is nobody more fanatical about building the United States of Europe, and his candidacy is there just at the moment that the European electors have made it clear they are going in the wrong direction," said Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip.
The Prime Minister, with the support of Hungarian and Swedish leaders, will oppose Mr Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, who has been nominated for the commission post by MEPs. The EU is Germany's proxy to enable it to control all of Europe, at all other European countries' expense (and great profit to Germany) - all achieved without attracting anti-German feelings, which are instead directed at the EU.
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David Cameron, whose Conservative party left the EPP in 2009, as well as Hungary and Sweden's prime ministers have opposed Juncker, lobbying for a more reformist candidate.
In the immediate aftermath of the election, Merkel appeared to have cooled on Juncker as a candidate, failing to state her endorsement and saying that "anything is possible". That she has now had another change of heart may be down to the increasingly critical press coverage of her prevarication in Germany.
The influential tabloid Bild took the unusual step of publishing an op-ed by its publisher, Matthias Döpfner, which described Cameron's opposition to Juncker as a scandal.
"That much is certain: Europeans want Juncker as EU president. [The German candidate of the Party of European Socialists bloc, Martin] Schulz got the second best result. A third, who didn't stand for election, can't be allowed to get the job. That would turn democracy into a farce. You may get away with something like that in the GDR or in far-right banana republics. But not in the EU. Or otherwise it will abolish itself."
The EU is Germany's proxy to enable it to control all of Europe, at all other European countries' expense (and great profit to Germany) - all achieved without attracting anti-German feelings, which are instead directed at the EU.
The EU is Germany's proxy to enable it to control all of Europe, at all other European countries' expense (and great profit to Germany) - all achieved without attracting anti-German feelings, which are instead directed at the EU.
The EU is Germany's proxy to enable it to control all of Europe, at all other European countries' expense (and great profit to Germany) - all achieved without attracting anti-German feelings, which are instead directed at the EU.
The EU is Germany's proxy to enable it to control all of Europe, at all other European countries' expense (and great profit to Germany) - all achieved without attracting anti-German feelings, which are instead directed at the EU.
The fact that the leaders of the 28 EU nations are not rushing to appoint Jean-Claude Juncker as the next head of the European Commission is being denounced in the European Parliament – and elsewhere – as an affront to democracy. After all, say the parliamentarians, the main pan-European parties in the European elections all nominated leading candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) – who were their standard-bearers and nominees to be head of the European Commission. The poor-old voters were told that, if the centre-right EPP came out ahead, then Mr Juncker of Luxembourg was the chosen one. The EPP have now duly emerged as the biggest bloc and yet European political leaders are not leaping to appoint Juncker. No wonder the voters are bitterly disillusioned, and Euroscepticism is on the march!
Well, that’s the argument, anyway. But it needs to be pointed out that the idea that the European electorate has just risen up – en masse – and demanded that Jean-Claude Juncker should be their leader is laughable nonsense.
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