European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attends the Charlemagne prize award ceremony on May 30, 2019 at the town hall of Aachen, western Germany. Photo: Ina Fassbender | AFP/Getty Images. Jean-Claude Juncker: I get Euroskeptical sometimes Nearing end of term, European Commission chief ruminates on living in a hotel and not having his own plane.

Even the president of the European Commission has his Euroskeptical moments.

"We have to differentiate between Euroskeptics and anti-Europeans. There’s certainly nothing wrong with a healthy skepticism about the EU’s everyday activities. I become a Euroskeptic at least once a day," Jean-Claude Juncker told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

Not that Juncker is planning to join the ranks of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini or French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. But he expressed annoyance at some EU rules.

As an example, he cited the costs that could result from some of his commissioners winning seats in the European Parliament election. If those commissioners take up their seats, their home governments would be entitled to nominate replacements to serve only until the end of the current Commission on October 31.

"This would cost the European taxpayer a million euros per commissioner, for relocation, staff and the lifelong pension which every commissioner gets ... If heads of state or government insist on replacing them, no citizen will understand this!" he declared, saying other commissioners could take on the work of their departing colleagues for the final few months.

However, Juncker seemed to think the European taxpayer could be more accommodating in other areas. He noted the European Commission president does not have an official residence and said he has spent the last five years living in a 50 square-meter hotel apartment.

"I couldn’t invite anyone home. I can’t talk to official visitors sitting on my bed!" Juncker said.

Juncker also noted he had to fly on commercial flights as the Commission does not have its own plane for official business.

"When I was talking to Donald Trump, I was constantly looking at my watch so that I wouldn’t miss my flight home. Trump kept saying, ‘Your plane can wait!’ He didn’t realize that I didn’t have my own aeroplane," Juncker added.

As for his successor, Juncker stopped short of a full-throated endorsement of Manfred Weber, despite the two men belonging to the same political alliance, the center-right European People's Party (EPP).

Juncker said the German member of the European Parliament is "a good listener and has sufficient knowledge" to be the next Commission president. But he said two of Weber's competitors, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans, could also do the job.

"There are several candidates. There's no sense in me speaking out in favor of one of them," he said.