A quote from the Economist blog, 7 May 2008
 
A source close to Mr Sarkozy describes Mr Barroso and Mr Juncker as highly regarded favourites for the job of commission boss and first president of the council: unless the two swap jobs.
 
There is the small detail that Britain is fiercely opposed to Mr Juncker for the same reason that so many in the EU favour him: he is a deep-dyed fanatical federalist, steeped in the dark arts of late-night Brussels deals and plots. […] But could Britain yet be cornered into a choice between the lesser of two or three evils, in some grand bargaining game in which, say, an even less palatable choice is proposed for EU foreign minister, or high representative as that top envoy will officially be known? It is all going to be very tricky from now until December.