Symbol copyright Getty Images Symbol caption Martin Selmayr (R) was Mr Juncker’s leader of team of workers in 2014
The Eu ombudsman has given a damning verdict at the method Jean-Claude Juncker’s leader of team of workers was once given the top submit within the bloc’s civil service.
The promotion of Martin Selmayr, nicknamed “the monster” by his boss, was once rapid-tracked in February, in a move condemned by one Euro MP as a “coup”.
Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly identified 4 counts of maladministration via the ecu Fee.
She said the affair had damaged public agree with in EUROPEAN institutions.
Ms O’Reilly agreed with the ecu Parliament’s review that the advertising had “stretched and possibly even overstretched the boundaries of the legislation”.
Symbol copyright Getty Images Symbol caption Mr Selmayr was once accused of leaking main points of a personal dinner meeting related to Mr Juncker and the uk prime minister
The Eu Parliament condemned the handling of the advertising, and there have been reports that Mr Juncker had threatened to give up if the newly appointed secretary-general was once forced out.
What does the ombudsman say?
In her scathing file, Emily O’Reilly pointed to a number of “problems with fear”:
Mr Selmayr had now not “recused himself” from resolution-making that led to the deputy emptiness that he in the end filled The appointment procedure for the deputy role used to be performed “to make Mr Selmayr eligible for his instant reassignment because the new secretary-normal” The Fee reacted to valid concerns in an “evasive, protecting and legalistic method”.
She stated four cases of maladministration, together with failing to avoid risking a warfare of interests, and warned that the sequence of events had positioned the “wider legitimacy of the european… at unnecessary possibility”.
The Ecu Commission stated it didn’t percentage all aspects of the record, however welcomed her resolution to not contest the legality of the appointment.
