{"id":315387,"date":"2025-08-03T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315387\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:10:27","slug":"austrian-eu-ambassador-quits-after-allegations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315387\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian EU ambassador quits after \u2018allegations\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson said the acceptance of dismissal \u201cshould not be considered as confirmation of the allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His exit comes as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linklock.titanhq.com\/analyse?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.derstandard.at%2Fstory%2F3000000281559%2Foesterreichischer-spitzendiplomat-in-bruessel-tritt-nach-heiklen-geruechten-zurueck&amp;data=eJxNjLFuwzAMRL_G3iQ4kRU0g4YCRfYO-QBFIizWtiSQFIzk66N2KkGAx3uHC-4y2ykEGx-X63wao6tlQ8FQNLRxd_bL3Mzi9--7oZHdj66EAYZ5iqUtSZ4sBCC6x9s6kvOH31agzv_XNJdEKg_mczjf-h7HoSMQi8_RU9ReuslS6Nmvmf7m_HGy9tr_AixABBgSckhAiivKC3LEupXdi8KsHtSAGTYlhCIq-5BUAlw3yGqBDkOSLl_tV65vrIpVwg%25%25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report by Der Standard in Austria<\/a>\u00a0named Oberreiter in connection with a sexually explicit blog. The report said\u00a0Oberreiter denied that allegation and that he resigned to save Austria from further embarrassment. POLITICO has not verified the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor reasons of data and privacy protection of the person concerned and their relatives, we cannot provide further details,\u201d the government spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO has contacted a representative for Oberreiter for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Oberreiter has worked in the Austrian foreign service for more than 30 years and served in several key positions, including as Cabinet chief under Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg from the conservative Austrian People\u2019s Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson said the acceptance of dismissal \u201cshould not be considered as confirmation of the allegations.\u201d His exit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7907,24083,11576,2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-315387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-austrian-politics","10":"tag-brussels-bubble","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114966654017334783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}