EU Commission’s Juncker Faces Calls to Resign After Brexit Vote

Some EU governments believe the European Commission bears responsibility for the outcome of last week’s referendum in which 52 percent of U.K. voters supported an exit from the 28-nation bloc. Germany’s newspaper of record, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, published an op-ed on Monday saying Juncker should stand down. Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said that Juncker should have done more to persuade Britain to remain in the EU.

“At the moment, I don’t see the president of the European Commission as the right man for the job,” Zaoralek told Czech public television on Sunday. “But it’s not just Juncker. The problem of European elites is greater.”