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Emergency surgery for Juncker
By EUobserver
Jean-Claude Juncker, the outgoing European Commission president, has had to cut short his holidays in Austria for medical reasons, according to an EU press statement. He was taken back to Luxembourg for a surgical removal of his gallbladder, it said. German politician Ursula von der Leyen will succeed Juncker, who has been dogged by various health problems, on 1 November this year.