The president of the European Commission (EC), Jean-Claude Juncker , has had to shorten his vacation in Austria for "medical reasons" and return to his country, Luxembourg, where he will be operated urgently, the community executive said Saturday.
Juncker "has been repatriated to Luxembourg to undergo urgent removal of the gallbladder," the EC said in a statement. In recent years there has been much speculation about the health problems of Juncker , 64.
In July of last year, an incident took place during a NATO summit that unleashed numerous rumors and forced the Commission to give explanations about the health of the president of the Community Executive.
Images taken during the family photo of NATO leaders prior to their gala dinner showed how the Prime Ministers of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and Portugal, António Costa, had to help Juncker, who stayed in foot with difficulty , down the steps of the podium installed for photography.
That same night he was seen sitting in a wheelchair.According to the EC then explained, the situation was due to an attack of particularly acute pain caused by the sciatica that Juncker has suffered for years, a recurring problem and that, he said then a community spokesman hindered the ability of the president of the Commission to walk.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more- Jean-Claude Juncker
United Kingdom Boris Johnson, elected new British Conservative leader
International trade US-EU relations, stalled a year after Juncker's visit to Trump
Macroeconomics The fall of the pound shakes Johnson's hard Brexit