Jean-Claude Juncker
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Oct 29, 2026
Toby ManhireHOST
I mean, there's this kind of Gordian knot at the centre of so much of our politics here in different parts of the world.
Toby ManhireHOST
There's that line that Jean-Claude Juncker, the Belgian has which gets quoted a bit which is we all know what to do we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it and don't you do you tackle that sometimes like that you have to definitionally be elected but sometimes the big transformative things are going to kind of struggle to get past
Chris HipkinsGUEST
the electorate? I don't necessarily accept that.
Chris HipkinsGUEST
If you think about what are them, and since Rogernomics, so park that to one side, I love the podcast by the way, but park that error to one side, the big transformative changes that we've seen in the last 30 years since MMP was introduced, in my view, all took place under the Clark Cullen government.
Laurence MeredithUNKNOWN
But radical, radical in terms of our social vision, radical in terms of how we guarantee security for our people, and radical in terms of the alliance and the club of democracies to show how we can deliver for our people.
Geraldine DoogueHOST
Now, of course, the famous Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the commission.
Geraldine DoogueHOST
We do know what to do.
Geraldine DoogueHOST
We just don't know how to get re-elected when we do it.
MeganHOST
In that trade dispute with America, Canada has also shown that it can stand up for itself, targeting reciprocal tariffs on American imports from swing states in the run-up to the midterm elections and scrambling to cut its long-term dependence on its neighbor.
MeganHOST
Mr. Carney has so far managed to resist what is known as the Juncker curse, named after a president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
MeganHOST
Speaking of reform, Mr. Juncker once said, we all know what to do.
MeganHOST
We just don't know how to get reelected after we've done it.
MeganHOST
Yet Mr. Carney's popularity has been surging even as he reforms.
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I asked about refugees.
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And Jean-Claude Juncker, the Commission president, says that you're racist.
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You sound proud of the fact that you haven't taken any refugees.
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Coll McCailGUEST
And I think this is interesting because it highlights the extent of the crisis.
Coll McCailGUEST
In 2016, when the French economy was last in a perilous state, Jean-Claude Juncker, the then president of the European Commission, said... that France wouldn't go under simply because it is France.
Coll McCailGUEST
In other words, France is too big to fail.
Coll McCailGUEST
But now we're in a situation where even these big behemoths of the European Union are coming into very direct conflict with the apparatus of the European Union.
Scherie NicolHOST
Which reminds me, we actually had the chance to present this report's findings directly to the OECD Committee of Senior Budget Officials recently, along with representatives from countries' supreme audit institutions and independent fiscal institutions.
Ricardo Silva PereiraHOST
We did, and it was so interesting because their feedback strongly validated all of these conclusions, and many echoed that quote from Jean-Claude Juncker.
Ricardo Silva PereiraHOST
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we've done it.
Scherie NicolHOST
They all pretty much agreed that the technical maths is sound.
Douglas BransonHOST
Can you explain what this exceptional privilege was and how it's ended?
Silvia MerlerGUEST
Well, the best way to explain it is probably to quote former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who in 2016, he was talking to French Senate television and he was asked why the Commission was being so lenient on France despite France's repeated breaching of the EU fiscal rules.
Silvia MerlerGUEST
And the answer was because it is France.
Silvia MerlerGUEST
summing up for more than 20 years france has been the exception to the fiscal rules in the european union and this is very visible when we look at the evolution of public finances in france there hasn't been a serious fiscal adjustment in more than 20 years and as a result public spending is now considerably above 50 of gdp the deficit is projected to reach 5.4 percent of gdp this year and france is the only g7 country where debt to GDP ratio is above the 2020 peak during the COVID pandemic today.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
The interesting thing is that there were times and moments in Europe when we tried to cope with it.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
I was working for Jacques Delors in the 90s, and I can remember a time when Juncker and Helmut Kohl and Mitterrand and Jacques Delors, I mean, different Tempe Passanti, different time of history, but different men, all children of war.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
who had the ambition to basically truly unite the continent and failed.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
There are many reasons why they failed.
Andy ZaltzmanHOST
indeed.
Nish KumarGUEST
I mean, I don't know why he's done this, but maybe it's some sort of power move from Jeremy Corbyn, and he's planning to go in completely naked and just walk right up to Jean-Claude Juncker and go, here's Jeremy and the Corbynistas.
Nish KumarGUEST
What have you
Andy ZaltzmanHOST
got?
Richard PalmerHOST
They had an article, no happy ending in sight for this global poly crisis.
Richard PalmerHOST
The word poly crisis was first popularized in a speech in Athens by Jean-Claude Juncker, the former European Commission president around 10 years ago.
Richard PalmerHOST
I mean, popularized maybe isn't the right word because I don't think it's a particularly popular word, but some people have used it to describe the many crises that that are going through Europe.
Richard PalmerHOST
I mean, we're going to play some quotes and read some quotes from Mr. Armstrong and Mr.
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