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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12249
INSTITUTIONAL / United kingdom

Jean-Claude Juncker says not intervening in Brexit referendum campaign was a serious 'mistake'

The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has admitted that he made a serious mistake in 2016 in not adopting a position during the British referendum campaign on leaving or remaining in the EU. 

During a press conference where he reviewed progress ahead of the informal summit in Sibiu (see other news), he admitted that one of his mistakes had been "to listen carefully to David Cameron's British government’s request not to intervene in the campaign”. 

But it had...

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