A week after the landmark State of the Union speech by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the first president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy told EURACTIV that merging the two functions at the EU helm could run into legal and political obstacles.
"My first reaction was, let’s focus on the content, and not so much on procedures, institutions. In Europe, when you have no solution on substance, then you create a new job or you invent a new institution. That’s the reason I was sceptical, it sounded too much Brussels-like. The rest of Europe’s 500 million citizens are not so much concerned by a merger of a commission or council presidents."
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