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The years 2014-2019 follow and precede the two worst economic crises that the European Union has ever known: the ‘Great Financial Crisis’ at the turn of the 2010s and the ‘Great Health Crisis’ of 2020. During Jean-Claude Juncker’s five-year term as President of the European Commission, priorities, doctrines and practices on the European level changed significantly. In a context sometimes described as a “polycrisis”, or seen only through the lens of Brexit, economic and social outcomes have improved and European policies have followed new directions. These changes have helped to turn the page on previous crises and can serve as reference points for the future.