Europe must assume role as ‘global player’, says Juncker

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared Wednesday the bloc must develop a muscular foreign policy to match its economic strength, in his annual address to the EU parliament. 

“We must become a greater global actor,” the head of the EU executive told lawmakers in French, before switching to English: “Yes we are global payers, but we have to be global players too.”