Junker did not come to say goodbye to Chirac for health reasons

This was reported by the official representative of the European Commission Mina Andreeva.

“The chairman could not be in Paris today, but he, like the whole commission, sympathizes with the French on this day of national mourning on the occasion of the death of President Chirac,” she said.

In August, Junker urgently interrupted his vacation in Austria for an operation to remove the gallbladder.