Mr Blair met Mr Juncker on Tuesday, ahead of the summit, and then later Mr Chirac.
Luxembourg's Mr. Juncker convened an emergency teleconference of euro-zone finance ministers on the eve of the summit.
"Luxembourg's position is not open to change and will not change, " said Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.
It was Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, who chairs the grouping of eurozone finance ministers (the Eurogroup).
In many ways, this was a fairly typical intervention from Juncker, who has a touch of foot-in-mouth disease.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of the Eurogroup, was even more to the point.
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Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. Juncker and ECB chief Trichet all shared that view strongly.
Thus, when President George Bush visits Brussels next month, his counterpart will be Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg.
On Wednesday, Mr Samaras will meet Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg premier who heads the group of eurozone finance ministers.
This declaration is the basis for Mr Juncker's insistence that ratification must continue.
Mr Juncker concedes that giving the five laggards special treatment makes it plain that Turkey is in a category of its own.
Another figure often mentioned is Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister, but he repeatedly says he plans to continue running the Grand Duchy.
Jean-Claude Juncker has been co-ordinating the Eurogroup of finance ministers since 2005.
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Other candidates for the presidency come and go: Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, is a popular one but continues to refuse the job.
Eurogroup Chief Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed on Monday night that the support would involve bilateral loans from all euro zone members, rather than debt guarantees.
Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, was summoned to Luxembourg for an emergency meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the euro group of finance ministers.
Juncker said his government backed Arcelor's strategic plan and did not share Mittal's view that the combined company could form a European industrial champion.
Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg and chair of the euro group of finance ministers, says there was no talk of restructuring Greece's public debt.
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The chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, insisted on Monday night that they would do "everything possible" to keep Greece in the euro.
Joint Eurobonds for part of the sovereign debt, called for by Mr Juncker and the Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, might also reassure the markets.
Italy is potentially at risk of being engulfed by the euro crisis, as Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the euro group of finance ministers, has pointed out.
But at least Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, won his referendum on July 10th to approve the draft European Union constitution, by 57% to 43%.
The man in charge of the Luxembourg presidency will be the prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, the youngest of the European summiteers and one of the brightest.
One comfort for Mr Juncker is that Luxembourg, with a budget surplus and little government debt, will pass even the strictest application of the Maastricht tests.
This poses a special challenge for Mr Blair, who, in less than two weeks' time, will take over from Mr Juncker as EU president for six months...
Former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez, a socialist, is seen as a potential rival to Mr Blair, as is Jean-Claude Juncker, the veteran centre-right Luxembourg prime minister.
Juncker, in contrast, concluded that all avenues would be explored apart from Official Sector Involvement (OSI) i.e. the Euro area member states writing down their debt.
But Mr Juncker says that it will become increasingly clear during the autumn which countries are likely to qualify under the Maastricht criteria for the single currency.
The Eurogroup, headed by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, asked the Greek political class to support the reform package accepted as a condition of the original EU-IMF bailout.
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French President Jacques Chirac is due to meet Juncker on Wednesday to discuss Mittal's bid, and whether to enlist European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, in their crew.
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