The real issues in the Juncker row

David Cameron has bigger things to worry about than who becomes EU Commission president. Emily Hohler reports.

Every European leader and senior official seems to agree Brussels veteran Jean-Claude Juncker is the "wrong man" to be president of the European Commission, says The Times. Yet, "to the discredit" of the 26 European leaders who voted for the arch-federalist (only the Hungarians joined the British prime minister, David Cameron, in voting against him), he got the job.

"The EU is in a crisis of political legitimacy."It has spent too long navel-gazing and too little time thinking about issues voters care about: jobs, immigration and growth. Juncker, who is "against every necessary reform", stands in the way of what the EU needs to secure a viable future and recover popular legitimacy.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.