Issing was reacting to efforts by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to accelerate what the founding fathers of the common currency called "ever-closer union." In a June paper known as the "Five Presidents Report" (because the authors run the EC, the Euro Summit, the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank and the European Parliament), Juncker and his fellow apparatchiks spelled out their appetite for a European superstate.
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