The rapid appointment to a senior civil service post allegedly failed to comply with EU rules, leading the European Parliament to demand his resignation.
In 2019, Selmayr managed to avoid excommunication by resigning from his post when Commission President Ursula von der Leyen secured his appointment, a move made in response to criticism over the high number of German officials holding positions students.
As a compromise, he was appointed EU ambassador to Austria and sent to Vienna, where he provoked the national government by calling Austria’s dependence on Russian gas supplies “duty money.” blood “.
Selmayr is currently a senior advisor to the Commission. Since February he has also been a visiting professor of European law at the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization in Law at the University of Vienna.
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