EU Leaders Snub Cameron and Pick Juncker for Top EU Post
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European Union leaders swept aside U.K. opposition and nominated Jean-Claude Juncker to the EU’s top job, further fraying ties with Britain before its planned referendum on membership of the bloc.
Government heads proposed Juncker, a 59-year-old former Luxembourg prime minister, as European Commission president after he ran for the post as the candidate of Europe’s Christian Democratic parties in EU-wide elections. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was out-voted by his fellow leaders, the first time such a decision wasn’t taken unanimously.