Juncker skips unusual CoE 70th Anniversary ceremony at faraway Opera

*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- Experienced, former Long-Time Prime Minister of Luxembourg and €uroGroup's Chairman, current EU Commission's President, Jean-Claude Juncker, unexpectedly droped his scheduled venue to an unusual, Last-Minute Modified, Official Ceremony for CoE's 70th Anniversary, due to take place Tomorrow Afternoon at Strasbourg's Opera, where he was the KeeNote Top European Invitee, in addition to French President Emmanuel Macron, who currently Chairs the CoE, until mid-November 2019.

Juncker was also booked to Speek at CoE's PanEuropean Parliamentary Assembly's Political Affairs Committee, Earlier Tomorrow Morning, since 9 a.m., but this was also Cancelled, as "Eurofora" learned.

But his venue at the 47 Members-strong CoE's Organisation for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law's 70th Anniversary (1949-2019) had also a Important Symbolic Value, since Juncker is, currently, the Most Experienced  European Political Personality, and the Only Top Official Personalityb to whom All CoE's Heads of State/Government had entrusted, at CoE's Summit in Varsaw (Poland) back on 2005, a landmark Report on Cooperation between the CoE and the EU, (Comp. Our PressReports from Warsaw Summit, then, and Afterwards, from Juncker's Press Conference at the CoE on his Report's Conclusions at : .. + ..., etc).

This unexpected move has Nothing to do with CoE's New Secretary General, Marija Buric, who is of the Same ChristianDemocrat/EPP Party as Juncker, and in Good Relations with him.

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Juncker had Already notoriously Cancelled another scheduled Offcial Visit even to the Latest, Controversial "G7" Summit at Biarritz on August 2019, (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/flopsatbiarritzg7summit.html , etc). But he had officially met, in Luxembourg, with New Brittish Prime Minister Boris Johnson, (a former Journalist for European News in Brussels).

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Curiously, many People who know well the COE, had been Astonished by a Last Minute Modification of its Assembly's Planning, which had Changed the Location for that 70th Anniversary, Out of CoE's Buildings (where it had been Initially Sheduled), and Not Even to the Adjacent, Nearby superb "Palace for Congresses and Music/Pierre Pflimlin", where, however, both NATO's Anniversary Summit of 2009, and CoE's own Summit of 1998 (under French Presidency of Jacques Chirac, Together with the Historic German Chancelor Helmut Kohl), had taken place, But Only to a ...Far Away "Opera" Music outlet, DownTown, funded by Local Authorities.

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This had provoked an UnPrecedented Brou-ha-ha in a Massive Rush to get .."Tickets" (sic !) and/or Invitations to that Spectacle, by more than a Thousand of various Individuals, from several kinds of Politicians, up to CoE's own Staff, (where Organisers had been pushed to set up a "Drawing Lots" !), where some persons, even among those who have the Longest and/or the most Active Experience of Working in the COE, were curiously excluded de facto, (given, particularly, that they were Too Busy to Work for the CoE and/or Other Important Substantial European Issues, instead of going into a Time-Wasting Bureaucratic Invitation-Hunting)...

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However, several among CoE's Top Historic Personalities, as, former Secretary Generals, including, f.ex., Daniel Tarschys from Sweden, etc., spontaneously came and Saluted, kindly, "Eurofora", with a Friendly Smile and Words, alerady since this Evening, inside CoE's main Building.

But, many Journalists had been, reportedly, Obliged, by some unknown so-called "organizers", to Stay ...Closed in CoE's PressRoom, Exceptionaly in an EMPTY CoE's "Palace", or, (If they prayed and wasted a lot of Time, among Various Intermediaries, to get into a small "Pool" List), eventually, to Stay Standing (in the rain ?) OUT of that "Opera" bourgeois building, (as "Last concession")...

However, the Number 1 Value of a Real "Anniversary" PanEuropean Gathering, Naturally was to, at least, re-Unite Together all the Historic "Family" of the CoE, added to New incomers, including at a Following Social Meeting organized near that Opera, as, f.ex. all the still Living former Heads of this important Strasbourg's Organsiation, as its Former Secretary Generals Catherine Lalumiere, Daniel Tarschys, Walter Scwhimmer, Terry Davis, Thorbjorn Jagland, etc, together with Marija Buric, with All of whom "Eurofora"'s co-Founder has largely Worked, Making Numerous Publications on important PanEuropean Issues.

Historic former French President Jacques Chirac, (with whom Juncker had notoriously Cooperated a lot), obviously was one among the Top European Political Leaders who, normaly, should be among all of us, Nowadays in Strasbourg, (and with whom, "Eurofora"s co-Founder has Cooperated a lot), either directly, and/or through his Wife, former 1s Lady of France, Bernadette Chirac, as it was often done, (also as the Only Living former CoE's rotating Chairman from France, since CoE's 1998 Summit here). But, his Sudden Death, practically at the Eve of CoE's 70th Anniversary, unexpectedly Hindered that too, (See : ..., etc).

 Juncker has notoriously Studied, Lived, met his Wife, and Worked in Strasbourg, whose University's Faculty of Law, has attributed him a "Doctoral thesis award, Honoris causa").

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