MEPs have said that the appointment of Martin Selmayr as European Commission secretary general was a "coup-like action" but they will not ask for his resignation.
"The two-steps nomination of the secretary general constitutes a coup-like action which stretched and possibly even overstretched the limits of the law," says the draft of a European Parliament resolution published on Wednesday (28 March).
At a college meeting in February where commissioners were not aware of the move ...
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