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Brexit a 'Waste of Time and Waste of Energy,' Says Outgoing Commission President Juncker

Outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called Brexit a “waste of time and waste of energy” as he spoke in the European Parliament on October 22, nearing the end of his five-year term.

Juncker said it pained him to have spent so much of his mandate on Brexit, when he “thought of nothing less than how this union could do better for its citizens.”

Juncker steps down after his five-year term on November 1. He will be replaced by Ursula von der Leyen, a German Christian Democrat. Credit: European Parliament via Storyful