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Juncker (r) hid from press for a week, before voicing 'regret' (Photo: European Commission)

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Juncker: 'It's not 'my' problem, it's 'our' problem'

A level teaspoon of grudging credit where grudging credit is due.

After completely fluffing his response to the LuxLeaks last week (i.e. by disappearing), the erstwhile Grand Duchy PM evidently realised that a G20 meeting 1,000s of kilometres away, on the taboo topic itself, would not be the most politic way of breaking his silence.

So he traipsed down to the press room on Wednesday, six days after the revelations about Luxembourg's elaborate corporate tax avoidance schemes, and ...

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