Luxembourg's Frieden won't run for European Parliament
Former Finance Minister Luc Frieden of Luxembourg, a Christian Democrat (CSV), will not run in the vote for the European Parliament on 26 May, he told the Luxemburger Wort last weekend.
"After ample deliberations, I have for professional reasons decided not to put myself forward as a candidate for the elections for the European Parliament," Frieden told the Wort, the sister publication of the Luxembourg Times.
Frieden was finance minister between 2009 and 2013, under the premiership of Jean-Claude Juncker, currently president of the European Commission. Frieden served in several different roles in the country's government before that. His party is now in opposition.
Frieden is a candidate to head the country's Chamber of Commerce, the Lëtzebuerger Land newspaper reported on Friday.
He is also chairman of media house Saint-Paul, the parent company of the Luxembourg Times and the Luxemburger Wort, and at the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, the country's oldest private bank.
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