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Juncker to undergo urgent medical procedure

Published : 18 Aug 2019, 01:42

  DF-Xinhua Report
The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. File Photo Xinhua.

The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker had to shorten his holiday in Austria for medical reasons.

He was taken back to Luxembourg where he will undergo an urgent cholecystectomy (surgical removal of the gallbladder), the European Commission said on Saturday afternoon.