The Alternative Democratic Reform party is touting a slogan "Less Europe, more Luxembourg" in the coming elections.
The former Luxembourg prime minister has been a less-than-colourful fixture of European politics for more than 20 years, the embodiment of consensus, compromise and coalition-building that is the daily grind of EU deal-making.
At a press conference with the Danish prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Thorning-Schmidt, Merkelrmannouncedrthatthe former LuxembourGermany minisupportedthe job.
Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
At the turn of this year Luxembourg became the latest country to legalise same-sex marriage.
Last July, it looked like his 30-year career in politics had run its course when his long-term coalition partner in Luxembourg, the Socialist Workers party, withdrew its support and Juncker resigned as prime minister.
They shouldn't start throwing stones at Luxembourg".
The added complication is that Vestager's boss and the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was prime minister of Luxembourg for almost 20 years.
Luxembourg under Juncker, he said, operated thus: "They were looking for a new business model, so they stole the tax base of their neighbours".
The Luxembourg arm, through which much of the tax planning business was channelled, reported profits of £1.4bn in 2013, a sum which should halve this year, the finance director, Tushar Morzaria, said.
In published details about the turnover, tax and headcount of the main countries in which its operates, Barclays also revealed it paid just £20m of tax in Luxembourg.
