New year’ s press conference of the President of the European Commission

The President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stressed on his New year’s press conference that the EU Commission would be also in the future concentrated on the growth and employment as its priority tasks. The first results of the investment offensive are noticable, 81000 small and medium size enterprises have already made profit on the basis of the initiative. Juncker is critical towards the implementation of the actual measures for controlling the migrants’s crisis, especially towards the non realised relocation of 160000 refugees. Additionally he stressed that EU Commission is decided to guarantee free movement of people and goods in the Schengen area. The actual, temporary controls for regulating the flow of the migrants among the European countries will cost EU up to 3 billions Eur. Juncker is expecting the approval of the EU- reform proposals from the side of the United Kingdom till the end of this February.