Jean-Claude Juncker with his wife, Christiane Frising, in 2012, the same year a transcript of Mr Juncker talking to Marco Mille was handed to the parliamentary committee overseeing the security agency PASCAL LE SEGRETAIN/ GETTY IMAGESLuxembourg’s spy scandal has come back to haunt Jean-Claude Juncker. In 2013 lurid allegations of wiretaps, wristwatch recorders and nepotism cost him his job as prime minister of Luxembourg. When he took the EU’s top post in 2014, fears were expressed that his tainted reputation made him unfit for the role. Mr Juncker, 63, had been forced to resign amid a parliamentary investigation into mismanagement and abuses by Luxembourg’s spies in the Service de Renseignement de l’État Luxembourgeois (SREL). The key moment came when his socialist coalition partners, including…

Source: The Times December 13, 2017 00:03 UTC