Former President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker said the following in an interview with the newspaper: Kleine ZeitungHe said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in German several times without the help of a translator.
According to the former head of the AK, he knows the head of the Russian state well. He admitted that he was one of the Europeans who had the “longest and closest” communication with Putin.
“I spoke to him in German for hours, even at night, without the help of diplomats or translators,” Juncker continued.
The former EC chairman also said he had “closely watched” Putin “since the turn of the millennium”.
Juncker was president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019.
Putin before statedIt is obvious that there is a complex internal political struggle in Germany, but the policies of the authorities are damaging the future of the German economy.
Before that, the Russian President spoke German criticized German officials’ attacks on former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Putin before named He is the only guarantor of protection against dictatorship.