With a decision due Friday, there is speculation that the only way the U.K. can now block former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker from becoming next head of the European Union executive is to invoke a nearly 50-year-old principle that owes its emergence to Britain’s long-time EU nemesis, former French President Charles de Gaulle. The idea is that British Prime Minister David Cameron could invoke the 1966 Luxembourg Compromise–an agreement to delay a final decision on EU legislation if a member state’s “vital interest” is at stake.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:28:19 +0000
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